Flag to inline POM dependencies in DependencySets
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Key: MASSEMBLY-336
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-336
Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-2
Reporter: Joerg Schaible
We use the assembly plugin to generate a general distribution of our product by
packaging a lot of "final" artifacts non-transitively. Works fine. However, for
some project specific distributions we need to drop some of the artifacts and
add some others. However, in this case we must now repeat the complete
unchanged dependencies in the project specific version.
We came up with a solution using the POM as dependency to get all the standard
artifacts and declare a runtime dep to this POM in the project specific
distribution (with exclusions). Unfortunately in this case we can now use
neither a DependencySet without transitive dependencies (then we will include
the dependent POM only) nor with complete transitive deps, since then we will
not only include the "final" deps of the general distribution, but their
transitive dependencies also.
Therefore we patched the assembly plugin to support a new flag
"inlinePomDependencies" that forces the plugin to handle a POM dependency as if
the dependencies of the dependent POM had been declared directly in the current
one. If the DependencySet is collecting all transitive deps, the resulting
archive will simply not contain all dependent artifacts of type "pom", if the
DependencySet is collecting direct dependencies only, it will also include all
direct dependencies of the transitive dependencies of type "pom".
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