[jbosstools-dev] Who uses .target file?

[Mickael Istria]

Hi all,

This is an important question for us.
Nick and I are now convinced that .target files are not the panacea to 
drive dependency management at build time. It adds a lot of additional 
steps and it does not work that easily in the Maven way. We are thinking 
of some alternatives way to provide a "dependency" repository that would 
contain only the necessary stuff for you to work on your component. Then 
we'll just manage this repository instead of a .target file, it should 
make our daily work better and remove lot of complexity.
See https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10915 and comments starting 
from here 
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11157?focusedCommentId=12676643&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12676643 
for more details/debate.

So we more and more think this .target file is useless, and we'd like to 
get rid of it (uselessness is bad). But before that, we'd like to know 
whether some of you do use the generated .target file. If yes, we'll 
have to think on a better way to make everyone happy. So *if you use 
.target file, raise your hand*!
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools>
My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets 
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