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Ondrej Zizka edited comment on MNG-4599 at 3/31/10 5:08 PM:
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The point is that I must have been meeting and working with a completely 
different Maven community than the developers of Maven. Everyone I discussed 
this with considers these typical "640 kb should be enough for anyone" stances 
as detrimental, and I can only agree. Maven has a strong point in the repos and 
a slight standardization, but then it has 1001 usability flaws, which are being 
claimed as systematic way of doing things. All right then. But I am getting 
off-topic...

      was (Author: pekarna):
    The point is that I must have been meeting and working with a completely 
different Maven community than the developers of Maven. Everyone I discussed 
this with considers these typical "640 kb should be enough for anyone" stances 
as detrimental, and I can only agree. Maven has a strong point in the repos and 
a slight standardization, but then it has 1001 usability flaws, which are being 
claimed as systematic way of doing things. All right then.
  
> Provide a way to create "virtual artifacts" out of plain .jar file.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-4599
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4599
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Ondrej Zizka
>            Assignee: Brett Porter
>
> During the time I have been using Maven, I have come across numerous cases 
> when I desperately needed to turn a simple .jar file into a dependency. 
> Currently, this involves installing it properly to the repository first, and 
> only then it can be used.
> I suggest to introduce some construct which would take a list of .jar files 
> and turn them into dependencies in the sense they would be added to the 
> classpaths, could be used for WAR overlays, etc. Of course, they would not 
> have any transitional dependencies.
> <dependencyManagement>
>    <jarPaths>
>       <jarPath>../../releases/50GAAS/jboss-as/common/lib</jarPath>
>    </jarPaths>
>    ...
> </dependencyManagement>
> This would greately improve Maven's openness to non-mavenized world, and 
> usability in cases when you really get a plain .jar/.war/.ear/... before 
> every build cycle.

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