I agree that this is what seems intuitive-I assumed this was the way it would 
work when I started using this feature a few weeks ago, until I found that 
things were behaving strangely and I read the docs more thoroughly.  As it now 
stands, defaultconf is completely ignored if defaultconfmapping is defined, but 
I would rather have the behavior you describe.

Doug Glidden
Software Engineer
The Boeing Company
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: stephenh [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 15:56
To: [email protected]
Subject: defaultconf and defaultconfmapping


Hi,

Just posting a thought...I expected defaultconf and defaultconfmapping to be 
usable together.

E.g. if I did:

<dependencies defaultconfmapping="A->a;B->b" defaultconf="A">

I could list a dependency without a conf on it:

<dependency org="foo" name="bar" rev="1" />

And, without a conf on the dependency, defaultconf would kick in and say A, 
then have the mapping applied, so I'd end up with the foo.bar dependency's 
implied conf being A->a.

As it is now, if I leave off the dependency conf, I'm getting an implied conf 
of A->a;B->b.

I'd like to be able to give a default mapping for B, but not have it applied to 
dependencies unless I explicitly reference it, e.g.:

<dependency org="foo" name="onlyforb" rev="1" conf="B">

Then the implied conf would be B->b.

Perhaps there are reasons it cannot work that way, but I thought I'd just throw 
out that that is what seems intuitive to me. For now I can just put up with 
providing an explicit conf="A" on all of my non-B dependencies to keep them 
from leaking into the B configuration.

Thanks,
Stephen

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