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Benson Margulies commented on MNG-3879:
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I don't think it's ever a good idea to capture comments in a data model. As
folks are fond of pointing out, many, many, tools read and write poms, and they
are unlikely to be dependable in treating comments as data. I think this would
be more or less an abuse of XML.
> Dependency map and documentation
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>
> Key: MNG-3879
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3879
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Dependencies
> Affects Versions: 2.0.9
> Reporter: Benson Margulies
> Fix For: 3.2
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> 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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