Of curse ! Thanks for your contribution. :-) Gilles
2007/10/3, Jim Bonanno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > First let me say ivy is great project, it has been a pleasure to work > with. > We are currently using ivy 2.0 alpha 2. > > We recently hit an issue with resolving some POMs with the ibiblio > resolver > and usepoms=true. The problem is that the version for a dependency can be > stored in the dependency management section of a parent POM. > > The apache directory server is an example. > > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/directory/server/apacheds-server-main/1.5.0/apacheds-server-main-1.5.0.pom > > Note that the POM for the parent build artifact has the version > information > for the last 5 dependencies. > > The PomModuleDescriptorParser currently only builds a dependency > descriptor > if the groupId, artifactId and version are all set. So for the case of > apache directory server, many of the transitive dependencies are ignored. > > I have been working on an extension to the PomModuleDescriptorParser that > build the dependency management information at the end of the > project/parent > element by parsing the parent chain. Then if a dependency is found without > a > version, then the dependency management information is used. > > Is this something that others may be interested in? If so I can open an > issue and supply a patch. > -- Gilles SCOKART
