> -----Original Message----- > From: sebb [mailto:seb...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:47 AM > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [LANG] 3.0 JCIP Annotations > > On 20/03/2009, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It's only optional at run-time; it's not optional at compile-time. > > > > > > > > > Right. That's what optional means. > > I thought I understood optional, obviously I didn't. > > How does one express a dependency that really is optional at compile time? > > > Putting it as optional in Maven > > will change the dependencies report: > > > > http://commons.apache.org/proxy/dependencies.html > > I find the text on the report very confusing. > > Does (optional) mean "optional at compile and runtime" or "optional > for transitive dependencies"? Or something else? > > [BTW, JUnit should be updated to 3.8.2]
Why not migrate to JUnit 4.5 since lang 3.0 is Java 5-based? Gary > > Niall wrote that the use of optional caused problems for OSGI > dependencies, and I thought I saw that myself when I tried building > httpcore-osgi earlier - but now when I try that it works fine. > > My head is spinning! > > > None of the dependencies in Proxy (other than the JDK itself) are > > required. However, maven does put them on the classpath so that Proxy > > will compile. When a user declares a dependency on Proxy, they don't > > get all of that extra stuff automatically. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
