Re: [aether-users] expose the functionality DefaultArtifactDescriptorRea

[Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Portabella wrote:

> In maven-aether-provider-3.1.0 DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.java, there
> is the following:
> [...]
> I think that this loadPom function is very useful, not only for
> readArtifactDescriptor().
>
> could you refactor this class to expose this functionality (loadPom)
> (public, instead of private)?

This code is not maintained by the Eclipse Aether project, the Maven 
developer mailing list is likely a better place to pose this question.

Just bear in mind that the details of building an effective POM for the 
purpose of dependency resolution and for the purpose of building a 
project are slightly different.


Benjamin