Re: [infinispan-dev] Practical example of difficulties with dependencies
On 17/03/2016 12:25, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
Since we recently discussed the purpose of the "UberJar"s ,
I think it
would be a great exercise to look at this discussion:
- https://developer.jboss.org/message/953081
and ask ourselves what we could have done to make the first steps of
this new user less miserable.
Personally I think we could go a long way with some clear
documentation about our dependencies;
it's not hard to inject version properties from the pom files into the
docs, so we could have a little reminder about - for example - which
version of Hibernate is expected to have the JPACacheStore working.
Also, I think it's clear that uber jars - at least in this case - are
not even close to the solution, unless you intend to include all of
Hibernate ORM and transitive dependencies..
While you are right that we could be clearer, and providing a printout
of mvn dependency:dependency-[list|tree] would help some users, managing
dependencies manually always comes loaded with a number of issues:
duplicate jars, multiple versions, incompatible versions, useless jars,
etc. So, to me, this is an NP complete problem.
Tristan
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Tristan Tarrant
Infinispan Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat