I must have missed something in the discussion. Please forgive my ignorance here, but why is so much discussion happening on reordering the dependencies? Honestly, they shouldn't be reordered. I list out my dependencies in pure alphabetical order by group and artifact, and I wouldn't want those messed with when I clean up the POM.
Paul On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If people want to hose their build, there is not much we can do to stop > them ;) > >Are you thinking that this dependency sort would run automatically during > the > >release process? I was imagining this used during the development cycle, > so > >that any changes it causes would go through some cycles of testing. > Obviously, > >I would be very concerned if something like this was run during the > release process. > > I'm concerned that we're just giving people a loaded gun that we hope they > don't shoot themselves with...particularly when the end result didn't really > do much useful other than pretty up their source. If the tool can somehow > analyze the transitive results of the changes, great. Actually I think this > part of the tool might be the best piece to have so you can analyze results > across any pom changes, not just sorting. >
