Yes, although the support is still rather basic. transitive() doesn't support version ranges, coalescing versions (e.g. log4j-1.2.14 and 1.2.15), proximity or priority, etc.
Also, I think Peter was asking whether Buildr publishes Maven poms that include dependency information. alex On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Daniel Spiewak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
