[infinispan-dev] Cutting down on dependencies

[Tristan Tarrant]

While we're spring-cleaning our poms...

I would also like one or more -Pquick-* profiles which skip 
compiling/testing some parts of the codebase, e.g. quick-embedded, 
quick-server.

Tristan

On 06/06/2014 01:58, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> I'm starting from the most obvious place: looking for unused dependencies.
>
> Some dependencies are declared in the parent pom.xml, but it turns out
> nobody actually needed them :-)
> I'm trying to remove them all, one by one.. a slow background process
> as I want the full testsuite to complete for each removal.
>
> It would be easier if no dependency whatsoever was added to the parent
> pom; for example we also have a situation in which we would like to
> test:
>
>   # if anything works without any transactionmananager available on classpath
>   # that Log4J is really optional (will it blow up at runtime if it's not there?)
>   # I need a specific module to _not_ have TestNG on classpath because
> of conflicts
>
> None of these are possible as these dependencies (Log4j, Narayana,
> TestNG) are mandated globally.
>
> I'm working to gradually remove all global dependencies from the
> parent pom: modules which need them should declare them explicitly.
> Please support me by never ever adding any global dependency to the parent?
>
> Essentially I think no jar belongs there, but we could make an
> exception for things like net.jcip:jcip-annotations.
>
> Cheers,
> Sanne
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