Is there an issue report? If so, we can shop it around the twitter-sphere.
Sounds like a good opportunity for a newcomer to tackle, as ALR likes to
emphasize.
-Dan
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 20:23, Lincoln Baxter, III
<lincolnbaxter(a)gmail.com>wrote:
Yeah, definitely come to the conclusion that this needs to be
supported;
however, it will have to wait until after JBW unless someone else wants to
take a stab :)
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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