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[jira] Created: (MNG-3502) Reword description of "provided" scope

Reword description of "provided" scope
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                 Key: MNG-3502
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3502
             Project: Maven 2
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Documentation:  General
         Environment: http://maven.apache.org/pom.html
            Reporter: Chad La Joie
            Priority: Minor


The current description, in the POM reference, for the "provided" dependency scope is a bit misleading.  It currently states:

"This scope ... is only available for the test compilation and execution phases."

When I read this I thought that meant the dependency would only be available in the test-compile and execution phases.  What I needed was a scope that was available during the compilation, test, and execution phase.  Searching the user-list showed a couple other people were tripped up by this as well.

I'd like to recommend a change of wording then to make this more clear:

"This scope ... is available in the compilation, test compilation, and execution phases."

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[jira] Closed: (MNG-3502) Reword description of "provided" scope

Posted by "Benjamin Bentmann (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>.
     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3502?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Benjamin Bentmann closed MNG-3502.
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         Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: Documentation Deficit

Fixed in [r645089|http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=645089].

bq. "This scope ... is only available for the test compilation and execution phases."
The current docs (2008-04-04) say this only about the {{test}} scope, the {{provided}} scope is already mentioned to be available during compilation. However, the docs did not mention it to be available during testing.

> Reword description of "provided" scope
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-3502
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3502
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Documentation:  General
>         Environment: http://maven.apache.org/pom.html
>            Reporter: Chad La Joie
>            Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: Documentation Deficit
>
>
> The current description, in the POM reference, for the "provided" dependency scope is a bit misleading.  It currently states:
> "This scope ... is only available for the test compilation and execution phases."
> When I read this I thought that meant the dependency would only be available in the test-compile and execution phases.  What I needed was a scope that was available during the compilation, test, and execution phase.  Searching the user-list showed a couple other people were tripped up by this as well.
> I'd like to recommend a change of wording then to make this more clear:
> "This scope ... is available in the compilation, test compilation, and execution phases."

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