[news.eclipse.technology.m2e] Question or suggestion: sorting dependenci

[Yves Schumann <starwarsfan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

We've got some projects with a huge list of dependencies. Because of the
amount of entries this list is not really usable, especially if a
dependency should be found. This is the case on the list of dependencies
on the pom-Editor and on the Maven dependency list on the project itself.

Some of our developers made the suggestion, that it would be very nice,
if this list could be sorted. So what do you think about a sort function
on the pom-Editor? The best solution would be sorting by two columns:
Sorting by GroupID and/or sorting by ArtifactID.

The next point is, that the entries listed on the Maven dependencies on
the project itself are using the same order than given on the pom file.
But on this location I think the situation is a little bit more complex.
After a dependency out of the pom file you can see at first the
dependencies of this dependency and after that the next dependency out
of the pom file. Understand what I try to describe?

Let's say, that in the pom file the two jar's "foo.jar" and "bar.jar"
are given as dependencies. The first dependency "foo.jar" has a
dependency to "doom.jar". This appears on the Maven dependency list on
the project in this order:

- foo.jar
- doom.jar
- bar.jar

As you can see, with a huge amount of dependencies of dependencies
a.s.o. this would be very confusing. If this list could be sorted, the
usage would be way more clear:

- bar.jar
- doom.jar
- foo.jar


Any sentiments on this suggestion?


Regards,
Yves
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