Hi, This is primarily for Steve and Nicola Ken as I'm not sure if/how closely they follow the Maven lists.
Just wanted to let you know about the changes I dropped in for the dependencies and related tasks. Hopefully it is inline with the feedback you'd been providing. - added the ability to exclude specific transitive dependencies from being pulled in from a specific dependency - ability to use a POM to specify dependencies and repositories, in addition to the ant types - full support for external configuration (proxies, authentication info, repository mirrors, local repository location). The search order is ~/.ant/settings.xml, then ~/.m2/settings.xml - ability to export properties or references from the pom: <artifact:setProperty property="parent.artifact.id" expression="project.parent.artifactId" pomRefId="maven.project" /> <artifact:setProperty ref="developers" expression="project.developers" pomRefId="maven.project" /> (not sure whether this is a useful thing or not - I just thought references made sense for object types) This is only in the SVN version at the moment - if you'd like a development build published just let me know. Are there other features you see being needed, or is the focus now on the error handling, validation and testing? Here I only mean Ant specific things, as other features added to Maven like the dependency path reporting, version ranges and conflict resolution will work from the tasks as is, I think. The only thing I've got left on my list is to incoporate the Maven profiles support, but we need to play with that more on our end first. Cheers, Brett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
