On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:37 AM, John Lussmyer <[email protected]>wrote:

> So, Dependency Resolution has problems - and isn't that the whole REASON to
> use Maven?
> No wonder I keep wondering what the point of Maven is...
>

Dependency resolution is HARD. You only have to look at OSGi and SAT solving
algorithms to see this stuff messes with your head.

>From my understanding, the core maven stuff does the resolution but its not
exposed very well to allow other things (like dependency:tree and
eclipse:eclipse) to re-use this logic.

That's the problem we are suffering now.

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