[forge-dev] Manipulating the pom: classifiers and dependencyManagement

[Dan Allen]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 13:23, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 18:24, Lincoln Baxter, III <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> As far as classifiers. I've been intentionally avoiding them because it
>> adds a lot of complexity to the dependency API. What do you need?
>>
>
> Regardless of whether you like classifiers in general, you can't ignore the
> fact that they are part of a dependency. You really need to support them or
> else the forge dep support is just incomplete.
>

I agree that they are bad for distinguishing between two artifacts (like in
the case of testng). The main intention for them is to
reference complementary jars, like -source, -javadoc, etc. Of course, you
don't need to add those as dependencies.

-Dan

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