Re: Adding comments to dependencies in POM

[James Green <ja...@gmail.com>]

[ Dragging up a really old topic. ]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5803

Incidentally I would vote against a different namespace as comments are
likely to be of use to readers of Maven POMs even if they are used for
visual purposes.


On 27 August 2014 at 12:03, Robert Scholte <rf...@apache.org> wrote:

> I think it should be solved with a separate namespace, so the model
> parsing stays pure without metadata irrelevant for Maven.
> And it should already work right now, no need for the pom xsd to change,
> since the Maven pom-parser should ignore these kinds of elements/attributes.
>
> Robert
>
> Op Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:15:00 +0200 schreef domi <do...@fortysix.ch>:
>
>
>  +1
>> I think this would be a good idea, let us know about the issue, so we can
>> vote on it.
>> Domi
>>
>> On 27.08.2014, at 09:12, James Green <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I have in the past wasted hours of effort trying to weed out dependency
>>> issues where something has been added for reasons unknown. Removal leads
>>> to
>>> breakage.
>>>
>>> It would be helpful if, inside a POM, it were possible to add a comment
>>> element to a dependency. I realise this is possible as an XML comment,
>>> however having a POM field would let documentation engines record the
>>> comment.
>>>
>>> The same could be said for dependencies inside dependencyManagement.
>>>
>>> It would of course have the side effect of auto completion within IDEs
>>> showing authors how to "officially" comment on the reason for that work.
>>>
>>> An idea.
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>
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