+1 I haven't understood the need or use of this. But I wasn't sure if this was a felix project thing, or an ASF thing so I ignored it.
- Ray On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 9:05 PM David Jencks <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://felix.apache.org/documentation/development/dependencies-file-template.html > claims that each released software archive (what is that? source? compiled? > ???) must contain a “DEPENDENCIES” file. > > Why? The information in it is either useless and misleading for OSGI (if > the dependency is not included in the archive) or already required to be in > NOTICE or LICENCE (if the dependency is included), which are actual Apache > required files. > > I may have inadvertently started the idea that a DEPENDENCIES file is > useful, before I knew about OSGI, by getting maven to generate one, listing > the maven dependencies. > > Can we drop this page and stop this confusing and useless practice? > > David Jencks -- *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile> (@rotty3000) Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com> (@Liferay)
