Brett Porter wrote:
Once again, this was only an example. But I understand that in maven things are really different than in ant, and ivy has been primarly thought for ant integration. That's why we have focused on some needs you don't have.Test was only an example... in ivy, configurations are not limited
(you can use the name you want), and we assume nothing about their
transitivity. It's the developer who choose, by describing its
configurations mapping: in my "buildtime" I need xdoclet "runtime",
for example. So I can also say that in my conf "test" I need this
component "test" configuration. It's very flexible, and we answer to
many different needs with that.
There is no need for build time as it is all done via plugins and is
separate in Maven. We have runtime, which is used for distribution
purposes, as well as tests, and we have the default compile.
I've no idea in mind, but configurations are also used as what you call a profile.
Is this (or will it be) possible with m2 ?
There's a chance we'll add more later, or make it arbitrary if we
introduce arbitrary classpaths. This would probably come with additional
lifecycle phases - but I see little need for it. What other types of
dependencies do you see than compile, runtime and test? Maybe
integration test, when we have that, though most plugins will just
select dependencies from the existing ones, and filters can be used to
pick up the rare special case.
So configuration mapping is also interesting in this case.
Too much flexibility is not always a good thing, because when it isI agree. But I don't think it's unnecessary, at least when used with ant, and it's the first aim of ivy. But if you feel it's unnecessary in maven, I'll never say you're wrong ! And if this is the case, I'm afraid we won't be able to use poms as metadata.
unnecessary it usually comes with added complexity.
Xavier
- Brett
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