Hi, On 3/15/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As I understand it, so please correct me if I am wrong, if I download a program that builds using Maven, and it has dependencies in its pom.xml on Incubator artifiacts, then if Incubator artifacts are conflated with ASF artifacts, then when I built the program, it will automatically download the Incubator artifacts from the repository without my being aware of the dependency. However, if the Incubator artifacts are segregated into a separate repository, then Maven will not download them until I, the downstream user, add that repository to Maven. Is that correct or incorrect?
Incorrect. The pom.xml can also define alternative repositories to use, in which case no user action is required. Note that the pom.xml could just as well include GPL or commercial dependencies with you being none the wiser. In the end it's the end-user's responsibility to check the dependency graph for the kinds of libraries he or she is happy with. The "incubator" label in the version number stands up very clearly in a dependency graph. BR, Jukka Zitting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
