On 14/05/2009, Ceki Gulcu <c...@qos.ch> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  A large number of Maven projects declare commons-logging as a
>  dependency. Thus, if a developer wishes to use jcl-over-slf4j instead
>  of commons-logging, he or she would need to declare a commons-logging
>  exclusion in all of his/her dependencies which transitively depend on
>  commons-logging. This can be an error prone process. To alleviate the
>  pain, Erik van Oosten has developed a clever hack around this problem.
>
>  See http://tinyurl.com/2kds3v for details.
>
>  The idea is to publish empty artifacts which supposedly fulfill
>  dependencies for commons-logging without actually providing any
>  classes (hence the empty artifacts).
>
>  This approach works fine except that it requires the declaration of a
>  new repository in the project's pom.xml file. Moreover, the durability
>  of this repository is also questionable.

Has anyone tried declaring commons logging as <scope>system</scope> ?

Won't that stop it being added to the classpath?

>  Would the Apache Commons community, out of courtesy to developers,
>  consent to commons-logging version "99.0-does-not-exist" to be
>  published in the main maven repository?
>
>  I understand that the Apache Commons has nothing to gain by
>  sanctioning work done elsewhere. However, since the ASF is a
>  non-profit organization I thought that my request might have a small
>  chance of being accepted.
>
>  Thank you for your response,
>
>  --
>  Ceki Gülcü
>  Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for
> Java.
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>
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