[Yanel-dev] Re: [Dev] Maven repo dupes

[Michael Wechner]

Mehmet Birgi wrote:
> Thanks for all the feedback. As this is low priority, I might get back 
> to it later, but I will not pursue this issue at the moment.

I would like you to spend 15 minutes on this. Please give the debugging 
approach as I suggested a try and also please
add a bugzilla entry, because these ambiguities can lead to problems and 
hence we better get it documented it at least.

Thanks

Michi
>
> Cheers,
>
> Memo
>
>
>
> 2010/3/31 Guillaume Déflache <guillaume.deflache at wyona.com 
> <mailto:guillaume.deflache at wyona.com>>
>
>     [This message just came on one internal Wyona mailing-lists,
>     answering it here as it is of general interest: ]
>
>     Mehmet Birgi schrieb:
>
>     > Yesterday, while we were looking for the jakarta-commons-io lib
>     to use, Guillaume noticed that this library is included twice,
>     namely in:
>     >
>     >
>     /Users/memo/.m2/repository/apache-jakarta-commons/apache-jakarta-commons-io/1.2/apache-jakarta-commons-io-1.2.jar
>     >
>     /Users/memo/.m2/repository/commons-io/commons-io/1.2/commons-io-1.2.jar
>
>     I previously found a statement in the jakarta-commons mailing-list
>     about what is the now recommended form (I do not really remember
>     which one so I won't risk a guess) and a rationale for it, I'll
>     try to dig it up at home.
>
>
>
>     > As they are both the same version, one of them should be enough.
>     There may be other dupes, we didn't search for them. The bug
>     http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7006
>     also seems to be remotely related to this. Would it be worth the
>     effort to
>
>     It is indeed related to this. The cleanup explained below is made
>     as part of
>     http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6896
>
>
>
>     > try to clean out the maven repository? Or should I just enter a
>     new P2
>
>     To sum it up is not really our or Maven's central repositories
>     that are "dirty", it's rather the dependencies metadata that do
>     not cater for renames of the groupId/artifactId couples during the
>     life of a library.
>     Cleaning that would probably remove all "duplicate librairies",
>     but it is a long term task and not a very high priority ATM I think.
>
>
>
>     > bug and "forget about it" for now?
>
>     No need to enter another bug.
>     You can forget about it for now as an application developer as the
>     only real way to try to fix this is to clean up the dependency
>     tree starting from its "leaves".
>     For now only wyona-commons has been cleaned up (see r45585 on
>     <http://svn.wyona.com/repos/public/>), next target up the tree is
>     yarep.
>     I had already started on that so please coordinate with us on this
>     list if you want to work on that.
>
>
>     HTH,
>       Guillaume
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