With a dependency management section you can fix the SLF4J api version
to the one of your liking. No duplicates then.

Martijn

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Jeremy Thomerson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> At first I thought we could possibly use the <scope>provided</scope> for
> this.
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Dependency_Scope
>
> <http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Dependency_Scope>But,
> I guess that would probably be a worse practice - because it forces the user
> to provide it.  James, I just don't see a non-hack way around it.  What
> exactly is your usecase?  You are using a different version?  Newer or older
> than Wicket's?
>
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>
>
>
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:56 PM, James Carman
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I guess I see your point (to a point), but it is a pain to have to
>> exclude it wherever I reference a Wicket submodule.  I don't know how
>> it came up, but I had to add an exclusion to each one of them in my
>> application to avoid having duplicate copies of slf4j-api.jar on my
>> classpath.  It was pretty annoying.
>>
>> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Igor Vaynberg <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > but each submodule does have a direct dependency on slf4j so it should
>> > not depend on the wicket module to provide it transiently - that would
>> > be a hack.
>> >
>> > -igor
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:06 AM, James Carman
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Can we move the SLF4J dependency from the parent pom.xml file to the
>> >> wicket module's pom.xml file?  Since it's in the root, I have to do
>> >> excludes for each submodule from wicket (extensions, datetime, etc.)
>> >> to tell maven not to use the version of SLF4J that they specify.  If
>> >> we put it in wicket's pom.xml file, then each submodule would inherit
>> >> the dependency from wicket, because they all depend on wicket.
>> >>
>> >
>>
>



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