yup, that's the only real usecase for the descriptor file,
unfortunately one cannot easily tag maven dependencies (used to work
in maven 1.x) without in-place tag that says ïmpl dep or specification
dep, we have to use the external descriptor file

Milos

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Milos Kleint <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> I'm confused about the generation of manifest.mf. I'm trying to
>>> convert a project from NB/ant to NB/maven. There's a manifest.mf lying
>>> around. I moved it to src/main/nbm. Should I be removing it and
>>> depending on generation from the descriptor, instead.
>>
>> keep the manifest file (with stuff not generated by the plugin or with
>> stuff you want the plugin not generate.
>> I don't know about your setup details, but in general most people
>> should get away without a descriptor..
>>
>> Milos
>
> I have many examples of error messages about 'friends' and other
> dependency problems if I don't have descriptors with dependencies,
> even with 3.6.
>
>>
>>>
>>> As a further problem, I've got
>>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNBMODULE-158. My nbm.xml is very
>>> simple, and my pom dependencies are just:
>>>
>>>  <dependency>
>>>            <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId>
>>>            <artifactId>org-netbeans-api-annotations-common</artifactId>
>>>            <version>RELEASE701</version>
>>>        </dependency>
>>>        <dependency>
>>>          <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId>
>>>          <artifactId>org-openide-util</artifactId>
>>>          <version>RELEASE701</version>
>>>        </dependency>
>>>        <dependency>
>>>          <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId>
>>>          <artifactId>org-openide-modules</artifactId>
>>>          <version>RELEASE701</version>
>>>        </dependency>
>>>        <dependency>
>>>          <groupId>org.netbeans.modules</groupId>
>>>          <artifactId>org-netbeans-core</artifactId>
>>>          <version>RELEASE701</version>
>>>        </dependency>
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