other possible names for the scope could be "encapsulated", or "bundled"

2009/7/8 Stephen Connolly <[email protected]>:
> we really need some sort of
>
> <provides>
>  <groupId>log4j<groupId>
>  <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
>  <version>[1.2.5,1.3)</version>
> </provides>
>
> another option would be to add a new scope, e.g. implemented
>
> <dependency>
>  <groupId>log4j<groupId>
>  <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
>  <version>[1.2.5,1.3)</version>
>  <scope>implemented</scope>
> </dependency>
>
> that way we can filter out any artifacts which are implemented from the 
> tree...
>
> e.g.
>
> if I depend on org.jboss.thirdparty:log4j
>
> Maven 2.3.0+, 3.0.0+ can see that this implements log4j:log4j, so that
> it does not need to be pulled in via transative dependencies
>
> 2009/7/8 Daniel Kulp <[email protected]>:
>> On Wed July 8 2009 4:13:24 pm Benjamin Bentmann wrote:
>>> Paul Gier wrote:
>>> > One issue that will need to be resolved before we can sync, is how to
>>> > handle our rebuilt thirdparty jars.  For example, if a jboss project
>>> > needs to patch some thirdparty jar, rebuild it, and upload it to our
>>> > repository
>>>
>>> AFAIK, somebody building a patched third-party artifact is supposed to
>>> not deploy this derived artifact with its original group id but with the
>>> group id of the patch creator. So if JBoss creates a patched version of
>>> say log4j, it would need to get deployed with org.jboss:log4j or
>>> similar. This should be allowed to get synced into central as it can be
>>> distinguished from the original log4j:log4j artifact of the project owner.
>>
>> Except there THEN becomes the issue if someone depends on the normal log4j
>> artifact as well as some JBoss artifact that then transitively pulls in
>> org.jboss:log4j, they end up with two versions of log4j on the classpath with
>> all kinds of non-fun things happening.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Benjamin
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