On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Jarek Gawor wrote: > Are karaf features built from the maven dependencies? If so, won't > that require the same tracking as we are doing now? > > I always found the dependencies.xml useful but I guess maybe I was the > only one that paid attention to it. It prevented the server from > having too much unnecessary stuff and probably improved build time a > bit (since less stuff was getting pulled in when building a plugin).
You aren't the only one that found them useful. However, in our current mode of development, I don't think they are particularly useful. Dependencies are getting updated, but you don't see them until you're running an svn diff (or svn commit). IMO, that's too late. I think we have two options: 1) reenable the check that fails the build when dependencies change. 2) disable the dependency generation (or move dependencies to target), until we're ready to start (1) again I think we're going to need a thorough review of our dependencies. So, I'm ok with 2) until things settle down a bit... --kevan
