Hi all, I've created a maven plugin that "...gives build error if maven resolves transient dependencies in such a way that the none-newest version is chosen."
This plugin has turned out to be very useful in the company I work for. I would appreciate any feedback about the plugin. The plugin can be found here: http://github.com/mbknor/deptools -------- >From README: Maven deptools plugin --------------------------------------- Maven 2 plugin which gives build error if maven resolves transient dependencies in such a way that the none-newest version is chosen. At work we have all kinds of different dependencies problems related to transient dependencies. Transient dependencies has many downsides, but in my opinion, the alternative is worse. This plugin makes it possible to have the build process fail if not the newest version of a referred dependency is selected by mavens dependency resolving. It is possible to include/exclude which artifacts should be included in the check. This will make it possible for us to check dependency resolving for all inhouse api�s and projects.. The plugin is written in Scala --------------------------------------- If you find a bug or have a feature request, report them here: http://github.com/mbknor/deptools/issues --------------------------------------- The plugin can be found in this repository: <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>mbk_mvn_repo</id> <name>mbk_mvn_repo</name> <url>http://github.com/mbknor/mbk_mvn_repo/raw/master/</url> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> (PS: the repository does not work from Nexus(http://nexus.sonatype.org/)) --------------------------------------- To run the plugin from the command line: mvn deptools.plugin:maven-deptools-plugin:version-checker To include/exclude dependencies use one/both of these settings: -DexcludePattern=<regular expression> -DincludePattern=<regular expression> --------------------------------------- If you want to automatically include the deptools plugin in your build, so it can fail your build if it finds an error, you can do it like this: <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>deptools.plugin</groupId> <artifactId>maven-deptools-plugin</artifactId> <!-- Use these optional settings to include and/or include dependencies from the check: <configuration> <includePattern> a valid regular expression </includePattern> <excludePattern> a valid regular expression </excludePattern> </configuration> The pattern is matched against the string "groupId:artifactId" for all dependencies in the dependency-path. Example: <includePattern>com.kjetland:.*</includePattern> The pattern above will only fail the build if an error is found on any dependency linked to from a an artifact with groupId equal to 'com.kjetland' --> <executions> <execution> <phase>compile</phase> <goals> <goal>version-checker</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>mbk_mvn_repo</id> <name>mbk_mvn_repo</name> <url>http://github.com/mbknor/mbk_mvn_repo/raw/master/</url> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> ---- -Morten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
