I should clarify, Profiles in published poms are "ok"
Provided they do not affect in any way the dependency tree. If they affect the dependency tree (either directly by adding dependencies, or indirectly by modifying properties which affect the dependency tree) then they are evil. There may be some rare cases where indirect dependency tree modification is "ok" but I have yet to see one. -Stephen On 9 February 2012 14:50, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
