jira-importer opened a new issue, #81: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-apache-resources/issues/81
**[NRYet](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=JIRAUSER281746)** opened **[MASFRES-66](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MASFRES-66?redirect=false)** and commented > Dear Maven maintainers, we are studying Maven dependency specifications and we would like to offer several possible improvements for Maven. > > (1) The scope management of Maven is complicated and hard to distinguish. Maven maintained 6 scopes (i.e., {_}compile{_}, {_}runtime{_}, {_}provided{_}, {_}system{_}, {_}test{_}, and {_}import{_}). Compare to newer package managers such as NPM, which only has two scopes (i.e., {_}dependencies{_}, {_}devdependencies{_}), Maven has too many types of scopes, which makes it more difficult for users to understand. We went over all POMs on the Maven Central (around 8M artifacts, collected in March 2022) and count the frequency of all types of scope. Some of the scopes are rarely used. Only 0.35% of POMs in the Maven Center used _system_ scope. Also, _system_ scope is similar to _provided_ scope, and _import_ scope can hardly be regarded as a dependency scope. We suggest simplifying the types of scopes by merging _system_ into _provided_ and removing {_}import{_}. > > (2) In the documentation of Default Artifact Handlers (https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.9.3/maven-core/artifact-handlers.html), _type_ and _classifier_ should introduce more commonly used values as their default value to provide better examples. We found that the default values are rarely used and are not good examples for users to understand the use of the settings. Setting commonly used values as default can help users understand the usage of the settings. We went over all POMs on the Maven Central (around 8M artifacts, collected in March 2022) and count the frequency of all possible values of classifier and type. According to our research, in {_}classifier{_}, the default values have low frequencies, including _tests_ (1.05%), _javadoc_ (0.35%), _sources_ (0.29%), and {_}client{_}(0.01%). More commonly used values are _features_ (1.20%), _linux-x86_64_ (0.34%), and _osx-x86_64_ (0.27%). As for type, the top default values are _pom_ (4.38%), _test-jar_ (2.85%), _war_ (1.08%) and the rest of the values are all below 0.1%. Other common examples are _esa_ (2.53%), _zip_ (1.88%), and _xml_ (1.31%). --- No further details from [MASFRES-66](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MASFRES-66?redirect=false) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
