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

[Dan Allen]

Is there an issue report? If so, we can shop it around the twitter-sphere.
Sounds like a good opportunity for a newcomer to tackle, as ALR likes to
emphasize.

-Dan

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 20:23, Lincoln Baxter, III
<lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, definitely come to the conclusion that this needs to be supported;
> however, it will have to wait until after JBW unless someone else wants to
> take a stab :)
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>
>
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