This method only works for artifacts you're downloading from the Maven
repository, not for anything created with Buildr.
Full transitive dependency support is planned for 1.4.
Assaf
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Ittay Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see this in the 'transitive' method:
> when /([^:]+:){2,4}/ # A spec as opposed to a file name.
> artifact = artifact(spec)
> set |= [artifact] unless artifact.type == :pom
> set |= POM.load(artifact.pom).dependencies.map { |spec|
> artifact(spec) }
> ....
> when Project
> set |= transitive(spec.packages)
> when Rake::Task
> set |= spec.respond_to?(:to_spec) ? transitive(spec.to_spec) : [spec]
>
> so if I write compile.with(project('foo')), the method is recursively
> called with the packages tasks, each is then turned to a spec which then
> acts as if the artifact is in the repository, which means the previous
> project should be installed, which is an unnecessary overhead and I'm not
> sure will work as I'm not sure that a dependency on 'install' is created
> anywhere.
>
> also, what if i pass an Artifact ? it is a Rake::Task and supports the
> to_spec, so again buildr will look in the repository, and also will turn the
> Artifact to a spec, even though it is good as is.
>
> am i wrong?
>
> if not, why not add something like:
> when Rake::Task
> if(spec.respond_to?(:dependencies)) then
> set |= [spec] set |= transitive(spec.dependencies)
> else
> set |= spec.respond_to?(:to_spec) ? transitive(spec.to_spec) : [spec]
> end
>
> also maybe add a 'when Artifact' before the 'when Rake::Task' clause, and
> if the artifact is a repository artifact, try to read is pom, otherwise,
> warn (to the user) that he should pass the project/task that created the
> artifact.
>
> ittay
>
> --
> --
> Ittay Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
