Inconsistent dependencies

[Matthias Pfau <pf...@l3s.de>]

Hi there,
we just noticed that cassandra is currently published with inconsistent 
dependencies. The inconsistencies exist between the published pom and 
the published distribution (tar.gz). I compared hashes of the libs of 
several versions and the inconsistencies are different each time. 
However, I have not found a single cassandra release without 
inconsistencies.

This is a serious issue for us as we are using pom dependencies for 
development/testing and a tarball distribution for production. Over the 
long term it is very likely that we run into problems because sth. does 
not work as expected.

I had a look at the build process of cassandra and noticed that all 
dependencies that are included in the tarball are actually versioned in 
the libs directory. Unfortunately, these dependencies do not match the 
ones that are placed into the pom. Is there any reason for doing so?

The first things that came to my mind for solving the issue are:
a.) Remove the versioned dependencies and use ivy to retrieve the needed 
dependencies for compilation and packaging
b.) Create a fat jar that includes all dependencies of cassandra and 
publish that fat jar, too
c.) relabel all dependencies from the lib folder and republish them, too.

What do you think?

Kind regards
Matthias

Re: Inconsistent dependencies

[Sylvain Lebresne <sy...@datastax.com>]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Rob Coli <rc...@palominodb.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Matthias Pfau <pf...@l3s.de> wrote:
>> we just noticed that cassandra is currently published with inconsistent
>> dependencies. The inconsistencies exist between the published pom and the
>> published distribution (tar.gz). I compared hashes of the libs of several
>> versions and the inconsistencies are different each time. However, I have
>> not found a single cassandra release without inconsistencies.
>
> Was there every any answer to this question or resolution to this issue?

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4183


>
> If not, I suggest to Matthias that he file a JIRA ticket on the Apache
> Cassandra JIRA.
>
> =Rob
>
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> =Robert Coli
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Re: Inconsistent dependencies

[Rob Coli <rc...@palominodb.com>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Matthias Pfau <pf...@l3s.de> wrote:
> we just noticed that cassandra is currently published with inconsistent
> dependencies. The inconsistencies exist between the published pom and the
> published distribution (tar.gz). I compared hashes of the libs of several
> versions and the inconsistencies are different each time. However, I have
> not found a single cassandra release without inconsistencies.

Was there every any answer to this question or resolution to this issue?

If not, I suggest to Matthias that he file a JIRA ticket on the Apache
Cassandra JIRA.

=Rob

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