On 30/04/2008, Assaf Arkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Daniel Spiewak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-63 > > > > Might want to hold off on that release. It seems that the bug with > > POM-only > > projects still hasn't been fixed. Since there are a large number of > > projects (including Hibernate) which make use of this to aggregate > > transitive dependencies, this really isn't something which can be ignored > > for 1.3 unless we're giving up on the idea of stable transitive > > dependencies > > in this release. > > > > I have some ideas on how to do transitive dependencies right, but those will > have to wait for after the 1.3. It's a pretty big deal and something I'd > like to see as the main focus for 1.4 (along with version matching and OSGi > support). > > The transitive method is still marked as experimental, it's supposed to > carry us until we get real transitive support, so it should be fixed but > can't hold the release.
+1, Ivy is trying to be "maven compatible" since many months, You can see in JIRA [1] some example of the problem that we had. (Note that this list is probably not complete, and grows every week). [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&pid=12310580&component=12312101&resolution=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC > > The quick workaround until we get to test and fix it, is to fake the missing > artifact/POM: > > > http://people.apache.org/~assaf/buildr/1.3.0/site/troubleshooting.html#missing_pom_breaks_transitive_dependencies > > Assaf > > > > > > > > Daniel > > > -- Gilles Scokart
