[jboss-dev] pom.xml housekeeping

[Carlo de Wolf]

Sacha Labourey wrote:
> but shouldn't we reconsider this now that we have cleaned the build? 
> Furthermore, we could "externalize" this information in an external 
> project (as describe in the post), but I guess projects that are really 
> allergic to this approach could still rely on their "custom" dependency 
> set (and take the risk of being publicly bashed in case they don't 
> maintain their version up-to-date).
> 
> Is it possible to write a scripts that tests these things (i.e. gather 
> all dependency information for the complete build, flatten that 
> information and look for multiple "PROJECT-NAME_X_Y_Z" tag that have the 
> same PROJECT_NAME part but not the same X_Y_Z part? could this be part 
> of the build process as a testsuite or anyhting like that?

That's the job Maven should really do for us, but doesn't. See the 'Why 
Maven sucks (part 1)' thread.

Carlo