[jira] Commented: (MNG-2316) Add info to the poms for dependencies that implement an API or provide other dependencies

["Andrew Williams (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Andrew Williams commented on MNG-2316:
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How would you be able to use such information if it was available?

Perhaps your example is bad, but javax.mail is not just an API - it is an implementation, so including it on it's own is perfect;y valid, no extra implementation is needed.
If there was a purely api jar and you implement it with another artifact how would we know about it?

> Add info to the poms for dependencies that implement an API or provide other dependencies
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-2316
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2316
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Dependencies
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.4
>            Reporter: Carlos Sanchez
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 2.1.x
>
>
> e.g.
> geronimo implementation of javamail could say
> <provides>
>   <dependency>
>     <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
>     <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
>     <version>...</version>
>   </dependency>
> </provides>
> spring.jar pom could say
> <provides>
>   <dependency>
>     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
>     <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
>     <version>...</version>
>   </dependency>
>   <dependency>
>     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
>     <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
>     <version>...</version>
>   </dependency>
>   ...
> </provides>

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