Purpose of

["Brown, Carlton" <Ca...@compucredit.com>]

Hi all,

Is it just me, or does <include> within <dependency> not have any
effect?

For example, I have a "virtual module" consisting of a random collection
of COTS jars that do not follow a repository naming convention.

If I want to retrieve just the jars that begin with "apache-", I thought
it might work like this:

<dependency org="myorg" name="mymodule" rev="5.7">
        	<include name="apache-*"/>
</dependency>

The behavior is no different than if I include "*".   The entire set of
jars is retrieved, including those that are not apache-*.    However, I
must include "*" or else ivy will go searching for "mymodule-5.7.jar".
This seems like a strange way to express global inclusion.

The documentation does not shed much light on the principles of
<include>, can someone explain it a little better?

Thanks,
Carlton

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Re: Purpose of

[Xavier Hanin <xa...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Brown, Carlton <
Carlton.Brown@compucredit.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is it just me, or does <include> within <dependency> not have any
> effect?
>
> For example, I have a "virtual module" consisting of a random collection
> of COTS jars that do not follow a repository naming convention.
>
> If I want to retrieve just the jars that begin with "apache-", I thought
> it might work like this:
>
> <dependency org="myorg" name="mymodule" rev="5.7">
>                <include name="apache-*"/>
> </dependency>
>
> The behavior is no different than if I include "*".   The entire set of
> jars is retrieved, including those that are not apache-*.    However, I
> must include "*" or else ivy will go searching for "mymodule-5.7.jar".
> This seems like a strange way to express global inclusion.
>
> The documentation does not shed much light on the principles of
> <include>, can someone explain it a little better?

Include is not transitive, it only affects the artifacts from the
dependency. Since your dependency is a virtual module, it doesn't publish
any artifact itself, so include has no effect. I think there's already been
some people asking for transitivity in include like it has been introduced
for exclude in 1.x (can't remember which version exactly). Feel free to open
a issue if there isn't one already.

Xavier

>
>
> Thanks,
> Carlton
>
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