cstamas commented on issue #11242: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11242#issuecomment-3401232652
Also, one very important bit, that people tend to forget: _I as a publisher_ may have a simple single module project w/ `packaging=jar` and and I publish it to Central under GAV. _You, as a consumer_ are not obliged to consume my JAR, as you can still depend on my project with `type=pom`, which is totally "legal" and valid, and in this case, your Maven will pull my POM only and never JAR. Use case for this may be simply "reusing my dependencies" without reusing my own code (weird, but still valid). Moral of the story: Maven publishing and Maven consuming are intentionally disconnected in this way (people keep confusing `packaging`, `type` and `extension`, assuming they are same; which is not true). Also, "consumer" Maven (run by you while consuming my project) completely _ignores_ packaging of my project (that has `packaging=jar`), and listens to _your instructions_, that is `type=pom`. Typical example is plain JAR, that can be produced by packaging `jar`, but also with [things](https://github.com/takari/takari-lifecycle) like `takari-jar` for example. Both output will produce `JAR` that can be consumed as `type=jar` (the default, usually not written), and there is no need for you to assume "how it was built" (was it `jar` or `takari-jar` or `my-super-duper-jar-packaging` at build time). -- 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: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
