For pedantry sake, would it be best to put this <interpreter/> element
in a separate namespace, so that it itself is separate from the POM
schema itself.
This itself sounds very much like polyglot maven here actually - only
lifting the control of the model Reader/Writer of the XML Reader/Writer
to the pom itself, and just the filetype.
On 13 Jun 2014, at 11:52, Jason van Zyl wrote:
Was going to suggest this as the topic for our first hangout next
week.
On Jun 12, 2014, at 7:36 PM, William Ferguson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Interpreter
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Can I suggest that a good first step towards an enhanced Maven POM
structure would be to introduce an <interpreter> element that
declares the
interpreter to use to consume the remainder of the POM file.
Lack of such an element reverts to 4.0 interpreter.
Doing this would allow us to easily trial, share and discuss
structural
changes that we might like to see.
Attributes
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One of the most common complaints that I hear about Maven is that it
is too
verbose. The typical example given is the list of dependencies for a
mid
sized project, which will often number around 15-20. This translates
into
75-100 lines of dependency declaration minimum, or 135-180 if a
dependencyManagement block is also used. That's a lot of scrolling
for
something that could/should easily fit on your screen.
For 5.0 I would like to see attributes used to declare at least the
most
common dependency elements.
Eg
<dependencies>
<dependency groupId="com.foo.bar" artifactId="depA" version="1.0" />
<dependency groupId="com.foo.bar" artifactId="depB" version="1.1"
type="aar" />
</dependencies>
Instead of
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.foo.bar</groupId>
<artifactId>depA</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.foo.bar</groupId>
<artifactId>depB</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>aar</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
William
Thanks,
Jason
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