It's not a bad idea if we were starting from a green field. I'm not sure how the broader community would feel about changing the structure of the pom.xml file at this point. These things are very broadly used, and my gut is that the small improvement would not justify the pain of the transition.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 5:37 PM diku gabriell <dikugabri...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > Hello, > > My name is Gabriel Dicu.I am currently working with apache maven and I’d like > to make a suggestion about improving maven dependency structure.In my > opinion, dependencies should be organized better, because is difficult to > spot dependencies for different scopes.I think it is a good approach to group > dependencies by their scopes, thus having parent tags for each scope like: > <dependencies> > <scope value=”runtime”> > <dependency> > <groupId>…</groupId> > <artifactId>…</artifactId> > <version>…</version> > </dependency> > </scope> > <!—this is the default scope--> > <scope> > <dependency> > <groupId>…</groupId> > <artifactId>…</artifactId> > <version>…</version> > </dependency> > </scope> > <scope value=”test”> > <dependency> > <groupId>…</groupId> > <artifactId>…</artifactId> > <version>…</version> > </dependency> > <scope> > </dependencies> > > In this way you can organize better the dependencies and spot easily the > different scopes.It also can help identify the runtime/compile/etc.. > production dependencies and separate them from testing ones, which can be > less important in many cases. > > Thanks for taking the time for reading this, and if this approach can be > feasible, > I can be reached at the following email address dikugabri...@yahoo.com for > more details. > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
