Bootstrap is the ant bootstrap You just define M2_HOME and launch ant in the maven core directory to build and deploy your local maven distro
cheers > On 07 Oct 2015, at 15:43, Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > On 10/7/15 3:38 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> That it’s used in all projects not just selective ones so it’s directly > > inherited by all. As to not have to declare in each POM. > > The inheritance was what i expected (apart from that i don't like this kind > of dependency definition in a pom which is packaging pom), but what me > baffled are the comments about bootstrap ? > > >> >>> On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> i'm currently looking into the Maven code and stumbled over one thing which >>> i don't understand at the moment is: >>> >>> The root pom contains directly dependencies to junit >>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=blob_plain;f=pom.xml;hb=HEAD >>> >>> But it does not contain junit in dependencyManagement ? >>> >>> There are some comments like this: >>> >>> <!-- bootstrap-start-comment --> >>> <dependencies> >>> <dependency> >>> <groupId>junit</groupId> >>> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> >>> <version>${junitVersion}</version> >>> <scope>test</scope> >>> </dependency> >>> </dependencies> >>> <!-- bootstrap-end-comment --> >>> <build> >>> >>> Is this for a particular reason ? >>> >>> Does someone has an explanation for this? >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Karl Heinz Marbaise >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >>> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Jason van Zyl >> Founder, Takari and Apache Maven >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >> http://twitter.com/takari_io >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Three people can keep a secret provided two of them are dead. >> >> -- Benjamin Franklin >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
