Re: War plugin and Overlays handling

[Stephane Nicoll <st...@gmail.com>]

WEB-INF/lib sorry.

Just back from vacation, hope ApacheCon was good. I've worked on it
during the week and I'll send a mail later, probably tomorrow.

Stéphane.

On 3/30/07, Andrew Williams <an...@handyande.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 21 Mar 2007, at 07:04, Stephane Nicoll wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 3/21/07, Brian E. Fox <br...@reply.infinity.nu> wrote:
> >> Will the use of this new overlay cause the transitive dependencies
> >> of the overlayed wars to be resolved and included? I currently
> >> construct wars that I intend to be used as overlays by excluding
> >> all the jars. I do this to avoid conflicts but also to reduce the
> >> size in the repository. Unfortunately because I'm using a very old
> >> version of mwar, I have to manually keep my war project
> >> dependencies synchronized. If these transitive dependencies from
> >> the wars are automatically pulled in, then I think it's safe to
> >> also exclude WEB-INF/lib by default from the overlays. I think
> >> we'll have an excellent solution at that point.
> >
> > The proposition sticks to a simple overlay which does not resolve the
> > transitive dependencies, that's a very good point. We could even put a
> > default exclude on WEB-INF/* for overlays that are not the current
> > build (?). This will also solves the issues of people having multiple
> > time the same dep with a different minor versions in the resulting
> > war.
>
> Erm, does that not mean that all classes from other wars will be
> omitted?
>
> Andy
>
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