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Subject: Possible build tweaks
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:19:07 -0700
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I think our build is still perhaps more unwieldy than it needs to be.  I =
wonder if using the pom import scope more would help:

1. put some large sets of dependencies in dependency management such as =
in particular specs into separate "management only" poms=20

2. put versions of all the subprojects into dependency management of =
plugin poms... e.g. for connector_1.6 something like

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>

            <!-- imports of other plugins -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.framework</groupId>
                <artifactId>framework</artifactId>
                <version>${version}</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>j2ee</artifactId>
                <version>${version}</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>

            <!-- internal dependencies -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.configs</groupId>
                <artifactId>client-transaction-1_6</artifactId>
                <version>${version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.configs</groupId>
                <artifactId>connector-deployer-1_6</artifactId>
                <version>${version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.configs</groupId>
                <artifactId>transaction-1_6</artifactId>
                <version>${version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.modules</groupId>
                <artifactId>geronimo-connector-1_6</artifactId>
                <version>${version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.modules</groupId>
                <artifactId>geronimo-connector-builder-1_6</artifactId>
                <version>${version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.modules</groupId>
                <artifactId>geronimo-transaction-1_6</artifactId>
                <version>${version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <!-- external dependencies -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.tranql</groupId>
                <artifactId>tranql-connector</artifactId>
                <version>1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.aries.transaction</groupId>
                =
<artifactId>org.apache.aries.transaction.blueprint</artifactId>
                <version>0.1-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>


I think this makes the build more modular, makes clearer the =
relationships between plugins, and would be needed anyway should we =
decide to release plugins separately.

What do other people think?

thanks
david jencks