Re: [aether-dev] Plugin mechanism for the ConflictResolver?

[Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.boutemy@xxxxxxx>]

this is a question for Aether :)

I'm not an Aether expert, can't really answer

But please cross-post, because this is interesting for everybody.

Regards,

Hervé

Le samedi 18 octobre 2014 11:23:28 Christofer Dutz a écrit :
> While looking for the answer to your question, I noticed that the
> ConflictResolver seems to be using the JavaScopeDeriver which is of type
> ScopeDeriver to implement the scope derivation. It seems the
> JavaScopeDerives is the only implementation of ScopeDeriver. It seems that
> this is all part of Aether. So let me rephrase my question:
> 
> Would it be possible to add additional ScopeResolvers to Aether?
> 
> Chris
> 
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> Von: Hervé BOUTEMY [mailto:herve.boutemy@xxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Samstag, 18. Oktober 2014 12:41
> An: Maven Developers List
> Betreff: Re: Plugin mechanism for the ConflictResolver?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not an expert from that, but I'm interested to learn: will need some
> pointers and probably unit tests.
> 
> I have one key thought: do you know if it is done at Maven level (like in
> Maven 2.x) or at Aether-level?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hervé
> 
> Le samedi 18 octobre 2014 08:52:34 Christofer Dutz a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Im currently struggling with some changes introduced with Maven 3.1
> > explicitly regarding the ConflictResolver in conjunction with custom
> > scopes. I know that these are generally not supported, but they had
> > been working nicely for years. With Maven 3.1 it seems the scope of
> > transitive dependencies of custom scope artifacts are all flattened to
> > runtime.
> > 
> > Now to me it seems as if it were possible to support custom scopes by
> > making the ConflictResolver modularizable. Currently all rules are
> > hard-coded. How about defining an interface in which, in case of a
> > custom scope maven will sonsult a ConflictResolver registered for that
> > type of scope. This way plugins not designed for building Java
> > applications could define how to deal with transitive dependencies of
> > custom scopes?
> > 
> > What do you think? Am I missing something here? Would I start hurting
> > Kittens again ;-) ?
> > 
> > Chris
> 
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