[jira] Commented: (MNG-872) Allow defined dependencies to be related to certain types (attachments)

["Anders Kr. Andersen (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Anders Kr. Andersen commented on MNG-872:
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This is a feature request, not bug

> Allow defined dependencies to be related to certain types (attachments)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-872
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-872
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Artifacts and Repositories
>            Reporter: Kenney Westerhof
>             Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 3.x
>
>
> Currently, if you have attachments on a pom, both the main artifact and the attachments have the
> same dependencies.
> Use case 1:
>   packaging ejb: there's an ejb jar and an ejb-client jar. The ejb-client jar only
>   contains interfaces (actually, everything except the beans themselves), but no
>   business logic. The business logic in the ejb beans themselves however can have
>   a dependency that is not required for the ejb-client.
> Use case 2:
>   POMS producing .jar, .dll and .so suffer from the same problem. If there are dependencies
>   needed for just one or two types (either the jar or both .dll and .so), depending on
>   the other type also includes those dependencies.
> Proposal: add a tag <forTypes> (better name!) to <dependency>; when absent, all types
> will have this dependency; when present, only the specified types will have these dependencies.
> Implications:
> - add 'getXXClasspath( type ); methods to MavenProject and let the plugins use those.
> - dependency resolution should pick foreign dependencies parameterized by the <type>
>   or get them all and just group them by type (the first is preferred since the latter will cause
>   unused dependencies to be resolved).

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