Re: dependency version conflict resolution

2008-05-28 Thread John Williams
Sorry about the tangent, but has any work been done yet for graph-based dependency resolution? If I find the time to work on Maven that's the first thing I'd want to work on. Aside from being able to implement conflict resolution strategies more easily, I think a graph-based approach could have o

Re: dependency version conflict resolution

2008-05-27 Thread John Williams
a few dependencies on other work in > the core. > > Some people who are interested have contributed towards this in the past. Is > this something you are looking to work on, or just making a request? > > Thanks, > Brett > > On 22/05/2008, at 5:36 AM, John Williams wrote: &g

dependency version conflict resolution

2008-05-21 Thread John Williams
I'm new to list list so I apologize if this has been beaten to death before, but I'd like to propose a change to the version conflict resolution strategy that Maven uses. It's a combination of the current "nearest version" strategy and a "highest version" strategy. There are two cases: 1. When an