On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:11:14PM +0100, Wayne Fay wrote: > >> > is it possible to include system-scoped dependencies in a shaded jar? > > Do not use system-scope in your builds, period. > > > jar's manifest. Obviously, that works only as long as the absolute paths to > > the jars are the same on all machines the app is used on. However, that's no > > longer the case, so now I'm trying to get the jar to include the stuff it > > depends on. If anyone has a suggestion for solving this in a more elegant > > way, I'd be interested. > > Do not use system-scope. Install or deploy the jars into local Maven > repos. Anything else is a hack.
Ok, it's a hack (in admitting that it's not elegant I had already sort of agreed to that), but sometimes a hack that works is just what's needed -- so I'm still interested in how to commit this hack. As for installing the jars, yes, that's an option I sometimes use. It's resulting in a growing collection of jars, along with a script that runs ``mvn install:install-file ... -Dfile=<jarfile>'' on all these. I think of that collection and script as a hack as well -- creating copies of jars in a repository goes against my desire for normalisation and non-redundancy. The root of the trouble really is the lack of an indirection mechanism that would allow building a host dependent component into Class-Path entries in a jar manifest. The duplication of stuff (whether by installing into repos or by building shaded jars) could be avoided if something like Class-Path: ${JBOSS_HOME}/common/lib/jnpserver.jar was supported. So it seems to me that since the root of the problem is not a maven issue, all attempts of using maven to address is are bound to end up being hacks. Best regards, Jan -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: j....@uea.ac.uk | | WWW: http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/jtk | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org