Re: [rules-dev] Maven Project Structure

Geoffrey, Thanks for the explanation. Looking at this through the lens of git, it makes a lot more sense. Best Regards, Justin On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam(a)gmail.com <mailto:ge0ffrey.spam@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Justin, Take a look at those intermediate aggregator poms (for example drools-multiproject) per git repo. You 'll see they contain some stuff we can't do without: * Location of JBoss repository o required to find and download the droolsjbpm-parent pom (because that's in a different repo) o so the build works out-of-the-box (very important for getting the community involved) * Repo specific overwrites that apply to all of the modules in that repo but not in the others o dependency versions sometimes (these are temporary hacks that must be removed but there are always some) o plugin configurations o <scm> info to find the git repo o ... Op 07-03-12 16:49, Justin Holmes schreef: > > Hello Devs, > > I'm currently working on a project where I'm embedding Drools > inside my application and using Maven to pull down the necessary > artifacts. During this exercise, I've noticed that each project's > pom (e.g. drools-core) references an aggregator pom (e.g > drools-multiproject) as its parent. These aggregators then > reference droolsjbpm-parent as their parent. I'm no maven expert, > but it seems to me that this introduces an unnecessary layer of > artifacts in the maven repository. My understanding is that > aggregators are present solely to propagate build commands to > their children and do not contain dependency information (as is > the case in the Drools aggregators), so shouldn't the project > poms reference droolsjbpm-parent directly? > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-dev@lists.jboss.org> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev -- With kind regards, Geoffrey De Smet _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-dev@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev