On 3/18/08, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I liked the m1 dependency page version [1] better than the m2 one [2]. > > The latter seems a bit noisy from the user PoV, and is mildly > > incorrect in some places, such as the dependency tree and transitivity > > of optionality. > > > I re-generated the sites afte updating components to version 8 of > commons-parent. Unfortunately this picked up a copy in my local repo > of the maven-project-info-reports-plugin built from the latest source > - as well as my Java version changes there seems to be other bugs in > that version. This was accidental and unintentional on my part and in > version 9 of commons-parent the maven-project-info-reports-plugin > version is specified, so it shouldn't happen again. <snip/>
Thanks, though I didn't mean to revisit that. > Re-generating the > scxml dependencies page now results in the following: > > http://people.apache.org/~niallp/scxml/dependencies.html > <snap/> Things that bothered me (and still do in the page above are): * Dependency tree: In this example, it seems like commons-logging and servlet-api are transitive (they are *also* transitive, but they are first-order dependencies). commons-collections shows up elsewhere in the report but is not in the dependency tree. * Optionality: If myfaces-api is optional, so should be commons-lang (which comes in transitively through the api) and so on. I did a small usability study (sample size of 2, hah!) and asked, while pointing to the m1 and m2 dependency reports "As a user trying to figure out which dependencies are needed, which report would you prefer?". Both opted for the m1 report overall. I will add that the m2 dependency tree was a favorite -- paints a visual (though they took it to be correct), and I'd prefer no picture over a somewhat incorrect one. For the m1 report, one has only oneself to blame for not writing better comments in the last column. If others have similar observations, I may take this to a more appropriate forum :-) -Rahul > I will try to find time to re-publish all the sites at some point to > correct this, unless someone beats me to it. > > > Niall > > > > I'd like to get other opinions. > > > > -Rahul > > > > [1] > http://people.apache.org/~rahul/commons/scxml-0.7/rc2/site/dependencies.html > > [2] http://commons.apache.org/scxml/dependencies.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
