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List:       maven-dev
Subject:    RE: Dependency Not Found - Possible Solution
From:       "Michal Maczka" <mmaczka () interia ! pl>
Date:       2003-05-30 15:02:16
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There are other types of dependencies, not only jars, so manifest is
generally
not so helpful.

I think that once Maven will be supported by major IDEs (I hope one day it
will)
there will be various wizards for helping creating project XML file.

XML is for computers not for humans ;)


Michal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Ward [mailto:james@ectropic.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:37 PM
> To: Maven Developers List
> Subject: Re: Dependency Not Found - Possible Solution
>
>
> It's too bad there is not a standard for putting version info into
> META-INF.
>
> -James
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 08:16, Eelco Hillenius wrote:
> > Sounds cool. The downside to it is that it probably encourages lazy
> > behaviour and that it could corrupt strickt usage of versioning.
> >
> > Eelco
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "James Ward" <james@ectropic.com>
> > To: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org>
> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:04 PM
> > Subject: Dependency Not Found - Possible Solution
> >
> >
> > > Hello Maven Friends.
> > >
> > > I have been thinking about the problem of when a dependency can't be
> > > found in the local or remote repo.  Why can't we just make it
> so it asks
> > > the user where it is on the file system?  Then it copies it in.  For a
> > > newbie using Maven I don't like the idea of them having to copy it in,
> > > with the right structure themselves.  So maybe it could work
> like this:
> > >
> > > Attempting to download mail.jar form ibiblio.org
> > >
> > > mail.jar could not be found, if you would like to load it from your
> > > local files system, enter it's path (Or hit enter to continue)
> > > mail.jar location > (user enters file location here)
> > >
> > > Maven check it's there and then copies it into the local repo.
> > >
> > > Just an idea.  Let me know what you all think.
> > >
> > > -James
> > >
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