SortMojo! Now thats the best idea I've heard yet. Eric
On 12/19/05, Rinku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am +1 for the existing format. Supporting more would be a maintenance > add-on. > > The only thing I can suggest is that may be certain sections could be > factored out (something like profiles.xml) into separate files (optional) > and merged at build time before the pom is processed. And I think this > could > be driven by the fact - what are frequently 'touched' sections after an > 'initial' POM has been setup for a project. > > For POMs with looooong list of dependencies, would it be possible to sort > the dependencies(or other elements) in an alphabetical order to ensure > they > can be located easily? .... may be we could whip up a SortMojo ;-) ...... > just thinking out loud! > > cheers, > Rahul > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Raible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Maven Users List" <users@maven.apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 2:06 PM > Subject: Is it possible to make pom.xml simpler? > > > After seeing what the Spring Developers have done to simplify Spring > context files, I can't help but think the same thing is possible for > Maven 2's pom.xml. Is it possible to add namespaces and make > something like the following possible? > > Before: > > <dependency> > <groupId>springframework</groupId> > <artifactId>spring</artifactId> > <version>1.2.6</version> > </dependency> > > After: > > <dep:artifact name="org/springframework/spring" version="1.2.6"/> > > Or just allow attributes to make things a bit cleaner? > > <dependency groupId="org.springframework" artifactId="spring" > version="1.2.6"/> > > Allowing 1 line instead of 5-6 lines per dependency would allow me to > cut my dependencies listing from 140 lines of XML to 37 lines. When > the Spring guys allows a couple of elements as attributes (<ref> and > <value>) - it made writing Spring context files *much* easier. > > Here's an example of my simplified version: > > <dependencies> > <dependency groupId="cargo" artifactId="cargo" version="0.6" > scope="test"/> > <dependency groupId="commons-lang" artifactId="commons-lang" > version="2.0"/> > <dependency groupId="commons-logging" artifactId="commons-logging" > version="1.0.4"/> > <dependency groupId="displaytag" artifactId="displaytag" > version="1.0" scope="runtime"> > <exclusions> > <exclusion artifactId="xalan" groupId="xalan"/> > </exclusions> > </dependency> > <dependency groupId="uk.ltd.getahead" artifactId="dwr" > version="1.0" scope="runtime"/> > <dependency groupId="org.hibernate" artifactId="hibernate" > version="3.0.5"> > <exclusions> > <exclusion artifactId="jta" groupId="javax.transaction"/> > </exclusions> > </dependency> > <dependency groupId="geronimo-spec" artifactId="geronimo-spec-jta" > version="1.0.1B-rc4"/> > <dependency groupId="jmock" artifactId="jmock" version="1.0.1" > scope="test"/> > <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="3.8.1" > scope="test"/> > <dependency groupId="jwebunit" artifactId="jwebunit" version="1.2" > scope="test"/> > <dependency groupId="httpunit" artifactId="httpunit" version="1.6" > scope="test"> > <exclusions> > <exclusion artifactId="js" groupId="rhino"/> > </exclusions> > </dependency> > <dependency groupId="log4j" artifactId="log4j" version="1.2.11"/> > <dependency groupId="postgresql" artifactId="postgresql" > version="8.1-404.jdbc3"/> > <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="servlet-api" > version="2.4" scope="provided"/> > <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="jstl" > version="1.1.2" scope="runtime"/> > <dependency groupId="taglibs" artifactId="standard" > version="1.1.2" scope="runtime"/> > <dependency groupId="opensymphony" artifactId="sitemesh" > version="2.2.1" scope="runtime"/> > <dependency groupId="springmodules" > artifactId="springmodules-validator" version="0.1" scope="runtime"/> > <dependency groupId="springframework" artifactId="spring" > version="1.2.6"/> > <dependency groupId="springframework" artifactId="spring-mock" > version="1.2.6" scope="test"> > <exclusions> > <exclusion artifactId="spring-jdbc" groupId="springframework"/> > <exclusion artifactId="spring-web" groupId="springframework"/> > </exclusions> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > > Of course, Ivy's syntax is even simpler, so maybe that'll provide some > motivation. ;-) > > <dependencies> > <dependency org="apache" name="commons-lang" rev="2.0" /> > <dependency org="apache" name="commons-cli" rev="1.0" /> > </dependencies> > > Matt > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
