[jboss-as7-dev] Reminder about pom.xml exclusions

[Jess Sightler]

Not as far as I know, though improvements seem to be planned:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2315
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3832
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/547805/how-to-exclude-all-transitive-dependencies-of-a-maven-dependency

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason T. Greene" <jason.greene at redhat.com>
To: jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org, "Paul Gier" <pgier at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 1:42:35 PM
Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Reminder about pom.xml exclusions

On 5/14/12 12:05 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> Just a reminder that when you add a new Maven dependency to AS7, before
> submitting the pull request, be SURE to thoroughly audit the output of
> "mvn dependency:tree" and make sure that all transitive dependencies are
> excluded in the main "pom.xml" - even if they look harmless!  If you
> don't, we can run into a problem where different versions of Maven or
> different JDKs give different dependency graphs, resulting in builds
> that work for some people but not others, which sucks for everyone involved.
>
> If there is a transitive dependency that you need, then add it in as a
> first-level dependency in the main pom.xml and specify the version directly.
>
> I think this is what is underlying
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4782 and I'm sure others will run
> into similar issues as well.


Paul,

Does maven have a no-transitive feature? :)

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Jason T. Greene
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