Dependency map and documentation
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Key: MNG-3879
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3879
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Dependencies
Affects Versions: 2.0.9
Reporter: benson margulies
This JIRA proposes a feature. I'm willing to try to contribute it given a
modicum of encouragement and guidance.
Over at CXF, we get many questions from users who are completely confounded by
the complex dependency graph that results from our many dependencies and their
many dependencies. I think that they would be less confused by far if maven
gave them a tiny bit of help.
The first part of the idea requires an addition to the core POM, which is why
I'm starting with a JIRA here. I propose to add an 'explanation' element to the
dependency element. This would contain a human-readable string explaining why
the dependency is here.
The second part is a goal that I would propose to call 'dependency-map'. This
would produce a formatted map of the dependency tree -- enriched, of course, by
the comments in the first part.
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