Le vendredi 11 avril 2014 15:10:01 Chris Graham a écrit : > Sent from my iPhone > > On 11/04/2014, at 9:23 AM, Barrie Treloar <baerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10 April 2014 23:37, Lennart Jörelid <lennart.jore...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So ... the consequence of your approach would be that POMs throughout a > >> maven reactor would have to repeat a dependency declaration if the > >> classes > >> in your maven project "directly" import a type. This - to me - seems not > >> only complex to resolve in a big reactor, but quite user-unfriendly as > > > >> well. An example shows this, I think: > > This is the *recommended* best practice. > > > > If you use something directly, then you should be explicit about that > > dependency. > > If I've followed this thread and fully understood it, the proposal is to > force the declaration of a dependency in the current Pom, even if they are > declared as dependencies of your declared dependency, ie transitive > dependencies. > > Does this not effectively disable the use of transitive dependencies? no, not completely: you still have automatic version calculation, and calculated complete transitive dependencies for run but yes, forcing direct dependencies delclaration gives developer more work: we expect this gives developer more precise knowledge of his code
> > I find transitive dependencies one of the most useful, powerful features of > Maven. +1 > > Without them, it takes me back to the (horrid) Ant days of manually having > walk the dependency tree. > > And what of consolidation/library poms, where one Pom lists 100's of other > jars needed? The WebSphere Process Server one (172 jars!) comes to mind. > > In short, if I've followed and understood this correctly, and I may not have > (holiday time for me), it sounds a very bad idea Igon. IMHO, each choice is debatable: this should be an option in compiler plugin. Something like "disableTransitiveDependencies". Notice that this wouldn't require core change Regards, Hervé > > -Chris > > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/analyze-mojo.htmlw > > ill report failures for you so you can check. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
