Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't Buildr already support transitive
dependencies?
define 'my-project' do
compile.with transitive('org.apache.wicket:wicket:jar:1.4')
end
Daniel
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Alex Boisvert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:16 PM, peter schröder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > i joined the list in April and looked at the last Posts in the Mailing
> > list, wich were quite old.
> > The same impression on the http://groups.google.com/group/buildr-talk .
>
>
> The buildr-task mailing list was used before we moved into the Apache
> incubator so it hasn't been used in a long while.
>
>
> > But i am quit happy that its not the case! I appreciate the work on
> buildr
> > and i like the style of webseite and especially the pdf-version of the
> > quide! I think its one of the best reads from a apache project i ever
> had!
>
>
> Great to hear! Assaf must be credited for much of the documentation and
> doc
> infrastructre. I like the result too. It's easy for developers to write
> doc and it produces great output.
>
> On the google-groups i found an (old) discussion about a plugin that
> > generates a maven pom with dependencies for an artifact. Is that
> something
> > that is coming a future release of buildr?
>
>
> Yes, that's the plan.
>
> We are currently evaluating buildr combined with ivy for
> > dependency-mechanism, but a built-in maven dependency-support would be
> even
> > nicer!
>
>
> We're planning dependency management for Buildr 1.4.x. No actual work has
> started yet but ideas have been circulated. We definitely plan to
> support
> reading Maven2 poms for transitive dependencies. Using Ivy is a
> possibility. Do you want to look into that?
>
> alex
>
