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Tibor Digana commented on MNG-2205: ----------------------------------- I agree with Jason that the model version should not change. I agree with other commiters saying that XML schema should not be changed. Therefore a new scope should be introduced and we can call it something like "nonrunnable". Thus the behavior of scope "provided" should not change in spec. > "provided" scope dependencies must be transitive > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: MNG-2205 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2205 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Dependencies > Reporter: David Boden > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 3.x / Backlog > > Attachments: transitivetest.zip > > > A provided scope dependency can also be thought of as "compile-only". > Project A requires Sybase JConnect on the runtime classpath. Project A > declares a "provided" dependency on Sybase JConnect. > Project B depends upon Project A. Project B declares a "compile" dependency > on Project A. > Project C depends upon Project B. Project C declares a "compile" dependency > on Project B. > {noformat} > C > | - compile dependency > B > | - compile dependency > A > | - provided dependency > Sybase JConnect > {noformat} > So, does Project C transitively depend on Sybase JConnect. Yes, of course! > The "provided" dependency needs to be transitive. > Ultimately, when Project C gets deployed, Sybase JConnect needs to be > somewhere on the runtime classpath in order for the application to function. > It's valid for Project C to assume that Sybase JConnect is available and use > JDBC all over the Project C code. Project C is safe to do this because it can > happily deduce that Sybase JConnect will be there in the runtime environment > because Project A NEEDS IT. > I've got Use Cases all over my aggregated build which make it absolutely > critical and common sense that provided scope dependencies are transitive. > For the (very rare) odd case where you don't want to inherit provided > dependencies, you can <exclude/> them. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162)