[all] Using maven dependency scope and comment properties WAS: Re: [pool] Dependency on Xerces

2006-03-05 Thread Phil Steitz
On 3/5/06, Arnaud HERITIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 What you can do in maven 1 it's to add a comment and a scope to these
 dependencies to explain that they are used only for the buildtime and not
 for the runtime.
 The documentation isn't yet updated. You can find it here :
 http://people.apache.org/~aheritier/maven-stage-site/maven-1.x/plugins/xdoc/properties.html#Pom_Settings
 In the xdoc plugin 1.9.2 I think that at least the comment property is
 displayed. You'll perhaps need to wait the version 1.10 to display the
 scope.

Thanks, Arnaud!  This is useful.  I have a question about the scope
property, which I understand will not show up immediately, but I want
to code it correctly. According to the docs here
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html
the choices are compile, provided, runtime and test.  I don't
see optional.  In [math], we have no hard dependencies, but if users
want to use commons-discovery to configure class factories (overriding
the defaults), they can do this as long as they have [discovery] and
[logging] available.  Specifying runtime as scope makes it look like
these are hard dependencies, which they are not.  In m2, this will
also extend transitive closure. How should the scope of these
dependencies be coded?

Phil

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Re: [all] Using maven dependency scope and comment properties WAS: Re: [pool] Dependency on Xerces

2006-03-05 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 3/5/06, Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have a question about the scope
 property, which I understand will not show up immediately, but I want
 to code it correctly. According to the docs here
 http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html
 the choices are compile, provided, runtime and test.  I don't
 see optional.

Optional isn't a scope, it's just optionaltrue/optional.

HTH,
--
Wendy

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