Without breaking backwards compatibility, it could be a choice for the Pom. Sure that’s an addition, but it it not like the format can never change. It’s an excellent idea.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 5:28 PM Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> wrote: > As mentioned by Elliotte this won't fit in the current pom model version. > And it will effect dependency resolution. The current order of > dependencies in the pom reflects the order on the classpath. > As long as there are no duplicate classes you should be fine, but the real > world shows us differently. > So with any proposal to regroup dependencies, people should be able to > control the final order. > > thanks, > Robert > On 28-11-2019 14:14:49, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote: > It's not a bad idea if we were starting from a green field. I'm not > sure how the broader community would feel about changing the structure > of the pom.xml file at this point. These things are very broadly used, > and my gut is that the small improvement would not justify the pain of > the transition. > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 5:37 PM diku gabriell > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > My name is Gabriel Dicu.I am currently working with apache maven and I’d > like to make a suggestion about improving maven dependency structure.In my > opinion, dependencies should be organized better, because is difficult to > spot dependencies for different scopes.I think it is a good approach to > group dependencies by their scopes, thus having parent tags for each scope > like: > > > > > > > > … > > … > > … > > > > > > > > > > > > … > > … > > … > > > > > > > > > > … > > … > > … > > > > > > > > > > In this way you can organize better the dependencies and spot easily the > different scopes.It also can help identify the runtime/compile/etc.. > production dependencies and separate them from testing ones, which can be > less important in many cases. > > > > Thanks for taking the time for reading this, and if this approach can be > feasible, > > I can be reached at the following email address dikugabri...@yahoo.com > for more details. > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > > > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > elh...@ibiblio.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
