[jira] Commented: (MPDIST-22) Use property of dependencies to include dependencies

["Xavier de Labouret (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPDIST-22?page=comments#action_82851 ] 
            
Xavier de Labouret commented on MPDIST-22:
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I second this: it is very sad that you have to use a maven.xml to include the dependencies of an application. Using the jar plugin lets you define the JAR dependencies in the classpath in a standard way. The war plugin lets you bundle dependencies. To be consistent, using the dist plugin should let you bundle some or all the dependencies using the project.xml too.

Without that the work needed to package a standalone app using Maven is heavier, and simply harder for beginners: i believe such a small change would be much appreciated.


> Use <dist.bundle> property of dependencies to include dependencies
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>
>                 Key: MPDIST-22
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPDIST-22
>             Project: maven-dist-plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet
>
> Currently dist doesn't include any dependencies, but most of the time you 'll want to include most of the dependencies.
> This can be done in a ear/war like manner, with a property on the dependencies: <dist.bundle>true</dist.bundle>

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