They are the bastard son of satan. which is why adding dependencies via profiles is an anti-pattern
people who do it give maven a bad name Take them out and shoot them. I may just have to thump psandoz on the shoulder really hard next time I see him if old jersey poms did that kind of thing... I know he's not at sun any more, which is why he won't get a shooting! On 9 February 2012 14:38, Peter Niederwieser <pnied...@gmail.com> wrote: > The published POM for > "com.sun.jersey.jersey-test-framework:jersey-test-framework-core:1.11" (1) > specifies additional dependencies in the "cobertura" and "default" profiles. > Are profiles in published POMs an officially supported feature, and are they > supposed to be resolved at consumption time? I wonder if that makes any > sense, and whether tools like Ivy and Gradle could even support this > (currently they don't). > > Cheers, > Peter > > -- > Peter Niederwieser > Principal Engineer, Gradleware > http://gradleware.com > Creator, Spock Framework > http://spockframework.org > Twitter: @pniederw > > (1) > http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Ccom.sun.jersey.jersey-test-framework%7Cjersey-test-framework-core%7C1.11%7Cjar > > -- > View this message in context: > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Are-profiles-in-published-POMs-a-supported-feature-tp5469611p5469611.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
