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Richard van der Hoff commented on MASSEMBLY-135: ------------------------------------------------ Gwyn, do you still feel that the documentation is inadequate? I think it's been improved substantially since you first filed this report. Incidentally, you might have more luck googling for "dependency" if you spelt it right ;) > Clarify the addition of dependancies in assembly:assembly > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-135 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-135 > Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 2.1 > Environment: n/a > Reporter: Gwyn Evans > Fix For: 2.2 > > > It was unclear to me for quite a while that the assembly plugin could pack > dependancies The documentation suggested that it should, by default, do so, > but when trying wth the built-in "bin" descriptor, nothing happened. I > worked around it for a while by having the dependancy plugin copy the jars > into my target folder, until I came back to it today. > What I found was that if I took the built-in 'bin', created my own[1] and > simply added > <dependencySets> > <dependencySet> > </dependencySet> > </dependencySets> > then I got the behaviour I wanted. > I'd suggest two changes - (1) some comment (in the descriptor format > description) about how dependancies are not included without the above and > (2) an additional pre-defined descriptior, e.g. "bin-with-dependancies", as > that seems to be a common requirement, judging from the M2 mailing list. > /Gwyn > [1] By the way, I couldn't find any documentation that explained the correct > syntax for this - > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/howto.html just uses > <descriptor> & > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly-mojo.html > mentions <descriptors> be only by trial & error do you find what it should > contain (OK, convention suggests it would <descriptor>, but the description > said files, which I first read as the filepath & <descriptor> was marked as > depreciated. ) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira