[wildfly-dev] Srcdeps in WildFly and WildFly Core

[Peter Palaga]

On 2017-01-30 17:29, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
> On 30/01/17 15:36, Peter Palaga wrote:
>> Hi Darran, inline...
>>
>> On 2017-01-26 13:56, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
>>> What that means is that a file that can directly influence the outcome
>>> of a local build is hidden from the engineer.  There are already quite a
>>> few things in out builds where when they go wrong we have to spend time
>>> tracking them down, having a hidden configuration may not help this.
>>
>> If I heart this earlier, I'd most probably choose a non-hidden location.
>> I perhaps do not see this as a problem, because I configure each of my
>> Eclipse workspaces to show all .* resources because .mvn is not the only
>> important file that is hidden: there is also .gitignore, .gitattributes,
>> .travis.yml, .appveyor.yml and even .git and others that one wants to
>> open from time to time.
>> But now that srcdeps has some users, sorry, I do not think I find this
>> important enough to break backwards compatibility.
>
> But those files listed don't influence the local build.
>
> Regarding backwards compatibility, what backwards compatibility are you
> referring to as from what I understand the PRs into WildFly and WildFly
> Core have not been merged yet.

srcdeps is used by other non-WF projects already and changing the 
location where it looks for its configuration file would either break 
those projects or require a migration. -- P