Re: Extending the Pom

[Joerg Hohwiller <jo...@j-hohwiller.de>]

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Hi Shane,
> 
>> Something that I think would be useful is a language/platform element. Then
>> it's purely additions to the POM. If you could identify the
>> language/platform and it's version would that be enough for you?
> 
> 
> For this element, I think it would be better to have something more general.
> For example, I may want slightly different pom extensions for both Byldan
> and NMaven, both of which have the same platform.
> 
> I do think, however, that also having a platform element within the pom is a
> good idea, as this would allow the artifact provider to specify target
> platform requirements for the artifact. This could then be matched against
> the Maven toolchain config, which would provide the build capabilities. I
> talked with Oleg yesterday about this and he said that we could define
> custom SAT rules for Mercury, allowing us to pull in different dependency
> chains, based on the toolchain/platform.
> 
> Shane
> 

Do you know the concept that we Java guyz use for picking the correct platform
specific dependency (e.g. when native code is involved).

If you are interested, have a look here:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=199302
Some link is broken but the attached POM is showing the idea.

Regards
  Jörg
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