Maven support for DependencyManagement

[Jim Bonanno <ti...@gmail.com>]

First let me say ivy is great project, it has been a pleasure to work with.
We are currently using ivy 2.0 alpha 2.

We recently hit an issue with resolving some POMs with the ibiblio resolver
and usepoms=true. The problem is that the version for a dependency can be
stored in the dependency management section of a parent POM.

The apache directory server is an example.

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/directory/server/apacheds-server-main/1.5.0/apacheds-server-main-1.5.0.pom

Note that the POM for the parent build artifact has the version information
for the last 5 dependencies.

The PomModuleDescriptorParser currently only builds a dependency descriptor
if the groupId, artifactId and version are all set. So for the case of
apache directory server, many of the transitive dependencies are ignored.

I have been working on an extension to the PomModuleDescriptorParser that
build the dependency management information at the end of the project/parent
element by parsing the parent chain. Then if a dependency is found without a
version, then the dependency management information is used.

Is this something that others may be interested in? If so I can open an
issue and supply a patch.

Re: Maven support for DependencyManagement

[Gilles Scokart <gs...@gmail.com>]

Of curse !
Thanks for your contribution.

:-)
Gilles





2007/10/3, Jim Bonanno <ti...@gmail.com>:
>
> First let me say ivy is great project, it has been a pleasure to work
> with.
> We are currently using ivy 2.0 alpha 2.
>
> We recently hit an issue with resolving some POMs with the ibiblio
> resolver
> and usepoms=true. The problem is that the version for a dependency can be
> stored in the dependency management section of a parent POM.
>
> The apache directory server is an example.
>
>
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/directory/server/apacheds-server-main/1.5.0/apacheds-server-main-1.5.0.pom
>
> Note that the POM for the parent build artifact has the version
> information
> for the last 5 dependencies.
>
> The PomModuleDescriptorParser currently only builds a dependency
> descriptor
> if the groupId, artifactId and version are all set. So for the case of
> apache directory server, many of the transitive dependencies are ignored.
>
> I have been working on an extension to the PomModuleDescriptorParser that
> build the dependency management information at the end of the
> project/parent
> element by parsing the parent chain. Then if a dependency is found without
> a
> version, then the dependency management information is used.
>
> Is this something that others may be interested in? If so I can open an
> issue and supply a patch.
>



-- 
Gilles SCOKART

RE: Maven support for DependencyManagement

["Scheper, Erik-Berndt" <er...@sogeti.nl>]

Well, this looks like a bug to me, so please do.

Regards,
Erik-Berndt


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Jim Bonanno [mailto:time2go2oib@gmail.com] 
Verzonden: woensdag 3 oktober 2007 16:20
Aan: ivy-dev@incubator.apache.org
Onderwerp: Maven support for DependencyManagement


First let me say ivy is great project, it has been a pleasure to work
with. We are currently using ivy 2.0 alpha 2.

We recently hit an issue with resolving some POMs with the ibiblio
resolver and usepoms=true. The problem is that the version for a
dependency can be stored in the dependency management section of a
parent POM.

The apache directory server is an example.

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/directory/server/apacheds-serve
r-main/1.5.0/apacheds-server-main-1.5.0.pom

Note that the POM for the parent build artifact has the version
information for the last 5 dependencies.

The PomModuleDescriptorParser currently only builds a dependency
descriptor if the groupId, artifactId and version are all set. So for
the case of apache directory server, many of the transitive dependencies
are ignored.

I have been working on an extension to the PomModuleDescriptorParser
that build the dependency management information at the end of the
project/parent element by parsing the parent chain. Then if a dependency
is found without a version, then the dependency management information
is used.

Is this something that others may be interested in? If so I can open an
issue and supply a patch.

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