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John Casey closed MASSEMBLY-135.
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Assignee: John Casey
Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: (was: 2.2)
The role of the dependencySets element should be well-documented by now. If
this is still an issue, please mention specific points where documentation is
confusing and reopen.
> Clarify the addition of dependancies in assembly:assembly
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> Key: MASSEMBLY-135
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-135
> Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.1
> Environment: n/a
> Reporter: Gwyn Evans
> Assignee: John Casey
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> It was unclear to me for quite a while that the assembly plugin could pack
> dependancies The documentation suggested that it should, by default, do so,
> but when trying wth the built-in "bin" descriptor, nothing happened. I
> worked around it for a while by having the dependancy plugin copy the jars
> into my target folder, until I came back to it today.
> What I found was that if I took the built-in 'bin', created my own[1] and
> simply added
> <dependencySets>
> <dependencySet>
> </dependencySet>
> </dependencySets>
> then I got the behaviour I wanted.
> I'd suggest two changes - (1) some comment (in the descriptor format
> description) about how dependancies are not included without the above and
> (2) an additional pre-defined descriptior, e.g. "bin-with-dependancies", as
> that seems to be a common requirement, judging from the M2 mailing list.
> /Gwyn
> [1] By the way, I couldn't find any documentation that explained the correct
> syntax for this -
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/howto.html just uses
> <descriptor> &
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly-mojo.html
> mentions <descriptors> be only by trial & error do you find what it should
> contain (OK, convention suggests it would <descriptor>, but the description
> said files, which I first read as the filepath & <descriptor> was marked as
> depreciated. )
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