On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:53, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/01/2003 10:47:56 PM:
> 
> >> Is this a secret, an undocumented feature that will go away or just
> >> lack of documentation?
> 
> >No. You just don't know where to look for documentation :)
> 
> >See http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven/reference/user-guide.html
> 
> Don't tell me I have to rewrite 20+ POMs because the <dependency> syntax
> changed "just so".

Who said you had to write rewrite you POMs? The only thing that requires
changing is the plugins that currently use ${pom.groupId} to determine
the artifact location. Not the POMs.

> And to my untrained eye, the usage of groupId is plain wrong in the
> examples.
> 
> In the java plugin, there is in plugin.jelly the line
> 
>     <property name="dir" 
>value="${maven.repo.central.directory}/${pom.groupId}/jars"/>
> 
> 
> which establishes e.g. for the example code that a commons-xxx jar must be
> put under
> 
> /org.apache.commons/jars/commons-xxx.jar
> 
> in the central repository. So for commons-xxx, the groupId tag
> should be commons-xxx. To me, the examples using <groupId> should be
> using <package>.
> 
> I don't see this on ibiblio and if you really force me to rewrite my
> POMs _again_ then I will not rewrite them. I will drop them and go
> centipede.

I don't know how you're using groupId which is why I asked. You are free
to do what you like though. No skin of my back which tool you personally
use. If you find Centipede easier, all the power to you. 

> I'm a software developer forced to use maven. Not a maven developer. :-)
> 
>       Regards
>               Henning
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Jason van Zyl
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and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it.
  
  -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society


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