There's a jira issue for that "provides" thing
On 3/23/06, jerome lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Geoffrey De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A few months back I read something that Sun's jars (activation,
> > javamail, jca, netbeans libs, ...) etc might end up on ibiblio.
> > Still most of them aren't there yet.
> >
> > However there is a maven1 java.net repository with a lot of jars
> > auto-downloadable available at
> > https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/nonav/repository/
> > including for example the activation jar:
> > https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/nonav/repository/jaxb/jars/activation-1.0.2.jar
> > (with a wrong groupId)
> >
> > Is there any news on this matter?
>
> I have no idea if this is happening or not. Related to that, I have
> been wondering for a while if there's some sort of 'Provides' tag (as
> in the Debian package management system) to identify a library that
> fulfill a particular dependency. Differing libraries could provide for
> the same dependency.
>
> Someone depending on javamail just for compilation purposes shouldn't
> care if the lib that will be used by maven is Sun's official (taken
> from an internal corporate repos), geronimo's one, GNU classpath
> one....
>
> Obviously that only works well when there's a centralized definition
> of dependencies, but that's a role the ibiblio uploaders could have.
>
> Jerome
>
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