[hibernate-dev] Documentation for people not using dependency management tools

Davide D'Alto davide at hibernate.org
Wed Mar 29 08:17:56 EDT 2017


I'm not against it but could you give an example?

I think it would help to clarify what you are talking about.

Thanks

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
> I'm brushing up some OGM documentation, and noting that we regularly
> make examples for both people consuming Maven pom definitions, and
> people downloading our distribution and trying to figure out which
> jars they need.
>
> I am not aware of specific problems with the instructions we give, but
> they all look highly suspicious; instructions are incomplete at best
> as we don't go into details.
>
> And we don't test these either.. I'm confident that if I were to test
> these instructions most would be out of date.
>
> While I'm aware that some people still don't use dependency management
> tools; I'm inclined to remove these documentation sections and abandon
> this population to their fate... at least we'd be slimming down the
> docs a bit for the sake of most developers.
>
> Any strong objections?
>
> If we really want to keep these, it would be great to have a
> documentation section generated from the maven dependencies but I
> don't think this is our priority now.
>
> Thanks,
> Sanne
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