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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented on MNG-6131:
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I'm skeptical. I've written some tooling that would be quite surprised if it
encountered a POM without a GAV. Plus, it seems simpler to state the rule as
every pom has a GAV, instead of some POMs have GAV but these sorts of POM in
these conditions can omit it but not those POMs that you use for something
else.
> Support pom without coordinate
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> Key: MNG-6131
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6131
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: FDPFC, POM
> Reporter: Robert Scholte
> Priority: Major
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> In some cases the GAV is only there because Maven expects it, even though
> these coordinates will never be used.
> The most common case is an aggregator: it will only trigger module without
> being part of a multimodule project.
> Another case I'm thinking of are test-cases, where you want to show the
> behavior of some plugins. This project self will (or should!) never be
> installed or deployed.
> In general: the GAV is only required when another project will refer to it or
> if you want to distribute the project via a M2-repository manager.
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