On 26 August 2013 08:27, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen, > > Stephen Connolly wrote: > > [snip] > > > It's better than that... I am not sure if I said it earlier or not, so I > > will try to say it now. > > > > When we get the next format, there are probably actually three files we > > want to deploy: > > > > foo-1.0.pom (the legacy 4.0.0 model) > > foo-1.0-build.pom (the new 5.0.0+ model) > > foo-1.0-deps.pom (the new 5.0.0+ model) > > > > Now foo-1.0.pom should be a resolved pom with only the bare minimum > > required elements, e.g. dependencies and hopefully nothing else... may > > need dependencyManagement, but I think we can collapse that down. No > > <parent> element. > > OK, this works for releases, but what about SNAPSHOTs? For SNAPSHOTs is is > quite normal that your parent is also a SNAPSHOT and you would produce all > kind of problems if you try to resolve/collapse SNAPSHOT parents for > SNAPSHOT artifacts that are installed or deployed. > Why? Or perhaps you are confusing what I mean? Basically the foo-1.0.pom that gets deployed/installed is the result of help:effective-pom with some bits removed, such as <properties>, <build>, <reporting>, <profiles> etc When building from a checkout, the reactor will have everything... and if you are depending on a deployed/installed -SNAPSHOT then the behaviour will remain the same. And since this would be for a new Maven, we need only concern ourselves that the contract of the new Maven's classpath and property behaviour is correct... thus we don't have to preserve the current crazyiness when you have a dependency that has transitive dependencies where parts of the GAV are linked by properties. In short, by separating the build time pom from the deployed pom, we can maintain a defined reproducible behaviour[1] *and* migrate the schema [1]: That does not mean that Maven 4.0 will allow you to reproduce all of the classpath hacks that you can with Maven 2/3... some of those hacks are stupid (even if people insist on using them)... but it should mean that whatever classpath constructs you can do in Maven 4.0 get mapped correctly on a best effort basis to the legacy clients > > [snip] > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
