Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-10 Thread Michal Maczka
John Casey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > In my opinion, this thread is not particularly useful. As far as I know, > we have not called for a vote on the final release of Maven 2.0. (we > haven't even released -beta-1 yet, for crying out loud!) > > This is my last re

Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-09 Thread John Casey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In my opinion, this thread is not particularly useful. As far as I know, we have not called for a vote on the final release of Maven 2.0. (we haven't even released -beta-1 yet, for crying out loud!) This is my last reply on this thread; it is fast gr

Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-09 Thread Michal Maczka
Kris Bravo wrote: You didn't get my point. My point was that it is irrelevant if POMs in the repository are minimal or not. But it is extremely important that information which is the main maven repository is _not changing_!!! I did get your overall point. But contrary to what you're no

RE: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-09 Thread Kris Bravo
> You didn't get my point. > > My point was that it is irrelevant if POMs in the repository are minimal or > not. > But it is extremely important that information which is the main maven > repository is _not changing_!!! > I did get your overall point. But contrary to what you're now saying, yo

RE: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-09 Thread Maczka Michal
> -Original Message- > From: Kris Bravo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 5:18 PM > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: RE: POM issues in the repository > > There is nothing wrong with having or using the minimal POMs > that can be fou

Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-09 Thread Kris Bravo
What about taking a play from the Gentoo Portage book? Something similar to the package masking ~arch keyword might do the trick: Add an extra tag to the POM schema which indicates whether or not the POM is stable. Add a tag in the settings file which indicates whether or not you want to use unst

RE: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-09 Thread Kris Bravo
There is nothing wrong with having or using the minimal POMs that can be found in the repository. As a user if I find, for example, a sun library for which no POM exists, I am willing to submit a basic POM which will cause my build to continue unimpeded by its absence. I won't however, stop every t

Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-08 Thread Michal Maczka
John Casey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think that such a drastic step will only serve to completely marginalize maven 2.x, and alienate users. Who would convert to using m2 if they first had to re-request uploads for the 10 dependencies they have?? I hope that m2 u

Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-08 Thread John Casey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think that such a drastic step will only serve to completely marginalize maven 2.x, and alienate users. Who would convert to using m2 if they first had to re-request uploads for the 10 dependencies they have?? While I agree that the repository inform

RE: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-08 Thread Maczka Michal
> -Original Message- > From: John Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:12 PM > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: POM issues in the repository > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 1. define sanity. &g

Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-07 Thread John Casey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. define sanity. 2. define validity. We have a tool out there right now that converts POMs from the m1 repository to the m2 repository, and does some meager checking on the XML/model validity of the POM on the way. HOWEVER, that's not the same as sa

Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-07 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:41 +0200, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi there, > > There needs to be a big effort to clean the m2 repo of bad POMs (or missing > deps). I've told several people to try out m2 and they haven't been able to > use it because of this (for example try depending on dom4j in your ow

Re: POM issues in the repository

2005-07-07 Thread Emmanuel Venisse
Vincent Massol wrote: Hi there, There needs to be a big effort to clean the m2 repo of bad POMs (or missing deps). I've told several people to try out m2 and they haven't been able to use it because of this (for example try depending on dom4j in your own project's POM). My question is: 1/ Do

POM issues in the repository

2005-07-07 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi there, There needs to be a big effort to clean the m2 repo of bad POMs (or missing deps). I've told several people to try out m2 and they haven't been able to use it because of this (for example try depending on dom4j in your own project's POM). My question is: 1/ Do we have any tool to check