[hibernate-dev] Hibernate 4 and the hibernate3.jar file in release bundle

[Steve Ebersole]

http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/2.1.0/tutorial/conf.html

Though Max and Emmanuel have far more experience with Ivy than myself.  My 
"knowledge" of Ivy comes solely from Gradle.

On Monday, October 11, 2010 02:34:05 am Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
> I think Sanne has a good point here. The people who are already using
> Maven or Ivy are not in need
> of a ueber-jar. They (hopefully) already realized that modularized jars
> are the better approach.
> 
> I am against continuing the support for a hibernate core ueberjar. I am
> not sure whether we really need
> some sort of substitute.
> 
> @Steve, can you explain in more detail how your Ivy approach would look
> like?
> 
> Regarding the maven archetype plugin. I recommend to stay away from it. I
> tried to use it in Validator and
> Search and it is just broken. See also
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-302
> Thinking about generating multiple different artifacts gives me the
> shivers.
> 
> --Hardy
> 
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:20:11 +0200, Sanne Grinovero
> 
> <sanne.grinovero at gmail.com> wrote:
> > People loving uber-jars are (in my experience) those who don't have an
> > automated dependency management system,
> > so having special maven artifacts won't help them.
> > It could be useful to document what modules are needed for each use
> > case by providing short descriptions for each jar.
> > 
> > Sanne

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