[jira] [Commented] (NUTCH-2895) Allow to add plugin dependency jars by wildcard

["Lewis John McGibbney (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Lewis John McGibbney commented on NUTCH-2895:
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I agree with your motivation here Seb. I need to study this some...

> Allow to add plugin dependency jars by wildcard
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>
>                 Key: NUTCH-2895
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-2895
>             Project: Nutch
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: plugin, runtime
>    Affects Versions: 1.18
>            Reporter: Sebastian Nagel
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 1.19
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> The plugin descriptors (plugin.xml) require to list all dependent jar files one by one as "library". This makes upgrading plugins which include a longer list of dependencies (parse-tika, any23, protocol-okhttp, Selenium-based protocols) a non-trivial task. Maybe we could add a "wildcard" rule that allows to add all (remaining) jars in the plugin folder to the classpath.
> Sure this would make the Nutch plugin system differ from the [original Eclipse plugin architecture|http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Plug-in-architecture/plugin_architecture.html]. When looking into recent Eclipse plugins: dependencies are in the lib/ folder and listed in the file "MANIFEST.MF".



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