[forge-dev] shading!?

Max Rydahl Andersen max.andersen at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 11:56:32 EDT 2011


On Apr 18, 2011, at 15:15, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:

> "if there is a standard location for dependencies"
> 
> What do you mean?

Your "standard" for shading is that you put all classes into the plugin.jar.

A "standard" for dependencies for a plugin.jar could be "next to the plugin.jar".

Would still have the problem of overlapping jars but then at least its easier to see where the duplication is.

/max

> 
> Thx,
> ~Lincoln
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking we might already be able to do that using the existing pom.xml metadata that's stored in the artifact itself, or is that too tricky?
> 
> if there is a standard location for dependencies then it should be fine - at least better than shading ;)
> 
> /max
> 
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Max Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I was thinking Plugin jar having references to dependent jars via manifest.mf
> >
> > /max (sent from my phone)
> >
> >
> > On 12/04/2011, at 00.39, "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Can you give an example of how you would bundle the JARs? (Just put them in /META-INF/dependencies/ ... ?) And would that not cause just as many class conflicts? If you shade/relocate then the deps *should be* completely isolated.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> well, recommending just bundling jars would be a better approach than shading IMO.
> >>
> >> /max
> >>
> >> On Apr 11, 2011, at 16:00, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> >>
> >> > Yeah, shading is currently the recommended approach. Conflicts should be avoided by using relocations. I know this is... not a great method, but for now it's all we've got. Open to suggestions.
> >> >
> >> > ~Lincoln
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > Heya,
> >> >
> >> > Lincoln, I just saw your commits to hibernattools plugin at (https://github.com/forge/plugin-hibernate-tools/commit/8b208b4a8e79dbb8a01d10d266ee81afd2cf7106)
> >> >
> >> > Is shading of jars really the recommended approach for plugins in Forge ?
> >> >
> >> > How are you going to share/avoid collisions of libraries across plugins if they need to bundle via shading ?
> >> >
> >> > /max
> >> > http://about.me/maxandersen
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> /max
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> > "Keep it Simple"
> 
> /max
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> Lincoln Baxter, III
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/max
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