[jira] Commented: (MNG-1867) deprecate system scope, analyse other use cases

["Jesse Glick (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Jesse Glick commented on MNG-1867:
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System scope is the only known way to do certain tasks. Most notably:

http://maven.apache.org/general.html#tools-jar-dependency

This case could be solved "properly" only if everyone agreed that the (Open)JDK 6 or 7 version of {{tools.jar}} sufficed, and could be legally published to a well-known repository. There may be other rarer cases with {{dt.jar}} etc.

> deprecate system scope, analyse other use cases
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-1867
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1867
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Artifacts and Repositories, Design, Patterns & Best Practices
>            Reporter: Brett Porter
>            Priority: Trivial
>             Fix For: 3.1
>
>
> possibly can avoid all use cases for system scope through proper use of alternate resolvers. Gather use cases (see MNG-1471) to ensure.

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