Hello! Which Apache projects do not ship required dependencies in their binaries? I just checked a few projects, which do:
velocity-1.4.tar.gz turbine-2.3.2.tar.gz jakarta-cactus-12-1.7.1.zip struts-1.2.8-bin.zip jakarta-jmeter-2.1.1.zip axis-bin-1_3.zip fop-0.20.5-bin.zip xmlbeans-2.1.0.zip xalan-j_2_7_0-bin.zip ... Regards, Arvid Sean Schofield wrote: >> -1 >> >> If you have a dependency to a snapshot version you should/must include >> the transitive dependencies in the bin assembly. >> But we can create two assemblies one with all dependencies and one >> without. What is the problem about this. >> We should provide a simple solution for the normal user. >> > > If this is "the Maven way" then I respectfully disagree. It's certain > not "the Apache way." I can't think of many ASF projects that ship > the transitive dependencies in their nightly or release builds. > > Its also a waste of bandwidth IMO. Maven is for managing your > dependencies but nothing about Maven requires that you include the > depedencies in your final product. > > >> Bernd >> > > Sean > >
