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