On 04/03/2014 06:48 AM, Peter MacKinnon wrote:
On 04/01/2014 07:28 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
Fedora 21 will likely introduce so called "weak" or "soft" dependencies,
also known as recommends and suggests. For proposed change see [1].
What do you think about Java packages adopting usage of weak
dependencies?
An example: Dependencies declared as optional in POM files could be
translated by dependency generators to Recommends instead of Requires.
+1 for optional->Recommends mapping
I would be cautious before deciding to universally and directly map
Maven (build-time) dependencies to run-time dependencies. I think the
general concept is a good idea though.
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