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Alireza Fattahi commented on MNG-6523:
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Well here is my usecase
My usecase has a long story behind it but to make I try to make it short :):
Our security department develops and update some security related stuff and
bundles them as a jar file. They do not want to upload it to any repository (
even the internal repository). Instead they copy this file on an remote secured
server and we are not allowed to move it or copy and re-read this from any
repository. We use `{{systemPath}}` to link it to our project during build
time. ( Why they did not want to use repository and this seems to be strange?
Well as I said +very+ long story but you can not always convince the security
guys and it is not easy to change their beliefs also you can not easily change
big software company deployment rules :) . "It has been there for a long time
and it is working quite well so no reason to change it!!" as they always say)
On the other hand, I believe other developers may had other use cases too. For
example some one mentioned this: There happens when you want to quickly test
some ( may be old ) jar files, This is a quick way to do it without the need to
upload it to any repository ( and also remember to remove it from there)
Thanks [~michael-o] for reading it
> System Dependencies Deprication
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>
> Key: MNG-6523
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6523
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Alireza Fattahi
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: wontfix-candidate
>
>
> Please let me know if this is wrong place for discussions about this.
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> As mentioned in
> [https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#System_Dependencies]
> the System Dependencies will be depreciated and should not be used.
> Well this feature seems very useful in some cases and must developers find it
> easy to use:
> [https://stackoverflow.com/a/4491469/2648077]
> [https://stackoverflow.com/a/22300875/2648077]
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> Well I wish it wouldn't be deprecated at all :)
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