[wildfly-dev] Proposal to revert component-matrix change

[Rostislav Svoboda]

Tomaz mentioned Quickstarts as one of the reasons to have BOMs in WF and
WF-CORE.

Eduardo should confirm that revert is fine for QS.

Rostislav

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Kabir Khan <kkhan at redhat.com> wrote:

> Perhaps https://github.com/jboss/bom-builder-maven-plugin can be used?
> I've not played with it
>
> > On 4 May 2018, at 22:11, David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've created https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-10330 and
> > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-3803 to track this.
> >
> > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Jason Greene <jason.greene at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >> I agree. We can break the bom cycle a different way.
> >>
> >>> On May 4, 2018, at 3:53 PM, David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I propose we revert the component-matrix change.  This change is
> >>> ostensibly to help in the creation of a BOM for the client libraries
> >>> and other dependent projects; however, the cost has turned out to be
> >>> somewhat higher than expected.
> >>>
> >>> IntelliJ seems to be unable to cope with dependency changes in the
> >>> project due to the use of import from the root POM.  This means that
> >>> the entire project must be force-reimported from time to time to keep
> >>> dependencies up to date, and forgetting to do so can lead to
> >>> development issues and lost time.
> >>>
> >>> Also, I've observed that Maven itself does not always correctly
> >>> resolve versions anymore, when you're building from a submodule.  I
> >>> don't really know why this is the case but I suspect that it's due to
> >>> some algorithmic ambiguity when the dependency tree is not linear like
> >>> it used to be.
> >>>
> >>> I think that if we need to generate some BOM for use by external
> >>> projects, it should be done as a separate step and artifact which
> >>> acquires versions from the parent.  I believe we had it this way at
> >>> one point, didn't we?
> >>>
> >>> Anyway I think this change didn't work out, and we should undo it
> >>> while it's still remotely possible.  WDYT?
> >>>
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