On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 13:23, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 18:24, Lincoln Baxter, III
<lincolnbaxter(a)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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