On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Stephen Connolly
wrote:
> On 25 April 2012 14:46, Benson Margulies wrote:
>
>> Here's a use case, and I think a way to make something that works.
>>
>> Project A wants to make use of a dependency from project B. There is,
>> however a bug. Project B is, for whate
On 25 April 2012 14:46, Benson Margulies wrote:
> Here's a use case, and I think a way to make something that works.
>
> Project A wants to make use of a dependency from project B. There is,
> however a bug. Project B is, for whatever reason, not going to release
> a bugfix any time soon. Project
Here's a use case, and I think a way to make something that works.
Project A wants to make use of a dependency from project B. There is,
however a bug. Project B is, for whatever reason, not going to release
a bugfix any time soon. Project A really doesn't want to establish a
full fork.
In the go
Greetings,
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Benson Margulies wrote:
> I was wondering how
> hard it would be to build a plugin, perhaps inspired by the scm
> plugin, that could download and build source.
While I don't think I would personally use the reasons you want this
plugin, I have several
I really don't see the point in this.
Whilst I can see your intention, I do not see the need, nor do I see
realistically that it is feasable.
I do agree with the limitations that you state and I can think of more. To the
point that I think it could only cover such a small subset of cases as to
>From time to time, there is an impedance mismatch between the desires
of an open source development community and the nature of Maven as a
*binary* dependency management system. While I wouldn't, for a moment,
suggest tampering with the existing binary system, I was wondering how
hard it would be
