Sure, framework code that relies on libs that will be in the server. For example with Seam 3 and CDI classes, or Hibernate needing JPA classes. Those classes will be there in the server. These are jar projects, not webapps.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 20:59, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 15/04/2011, at 1:59 AM, Jason Porter wrote: > > Has there been any work done on this issue (providedCompile outside of war > projects)? I see Hans said this would be a 1.0 thing, and probably > something to do with the publishing API rework. > > > I'm not sure we want to do this, at least not without a good use case. Do > you have an example of why you want a provideCompile configuration? > > > -- > Adam Murdoch > Gradle Co-founder > http://www.gradle.org > VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting > http://www.gradleware.com > > -- Jason Porter http://lightguard-jp.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/lightguardjp Software Engineer Open Source Advocate Author of Seam Catch - Next Generation Java Exception Handling PGP key id: 926CCFF5 PGP key available at: keyserver.net, pgp.mit.edu
