[jira] (MNG-2205) "provided" scope dependencies must be transitive

["Jason van Zyl (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Jason van Zyl commented on MNG-2205:
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I still think this would be confusing to have one behaviour with the 4.0.0 version of the POM and another behaviour with the 5.0.0 version of the model. I honestly think this would be confusing and after several years with this behaviour making a new scope name for the new behaviour is the way to go.

> "provided" scope dependencies must be transitive
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-2205
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2205
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Dependencies
>            Reporter: David Boden
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 3.x / Backlog
>
>         Attachments: transitivetest.zip
>
>
> A provided scope dependency can also be thought of as "compile-only".
> Project A requires Sybase JConnect on the runtime classpath. Project A declares a "provided" dependency on Sybase JConnect.
> Project B depends upon Project A. Project B declares a "compile" dependency on Project A.
> Project C depends upon Project B. Project C declares a "compile" dependency on Project B.
> {noformat}
> C
> | - compile dependency
> B
> | - compile dependency
> A
> | - provided dependency
> Sybase JConnect
> {noformat}
> So, does Project C transitively depend on Sybase JConnect. Yes, of course! The "provided" dependency needs to be transitive.
> Ultimately, when Project C gets deployed, Sybase JConnect needs to be somewhere on the runtime classpath in order for the application to function. It's valid for Project C to assume that Sybase JConnect is available and use JDBC all over the Project C code. Project C is safe to do this because it can happily deduce that Sybase JConnect will be there in the runtime environment because Project A NEEDS IT.
> I've got Use Cases all over my aggregated build which make it absolutely critical and common sense that provided scope dependencies are transitive. For the (very rare) odd case where you don't want to inherit provided dependencies, you can <exclude/> them.



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