Buildr and transitive dependencies

[Antoine Toulme]

Hey Ketan,

I thought some more of Buildr and transitive dependencies.

I remembered that they had introduced a new method named transitive:
http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/buildr-still-not-ready-for-prime-time

So Buildr already supports transitive dependencies. We need to create something similar to what Buildr uses.
 
Cheers,

Antoine

[Antoine Toulme]

Just had this chat with Assaf:

I see from this blog post
http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/buildr-still-not-ready-for-prime-time
that it is scheduled to be supported in 1.4

Assaf: yep

on our own with buildr4eclipse we designed a method named autoresolve
we get the artifact names from the manifest.
we have added a callback for people to select the group id from the artifact id
we still think hard about osgi versions and osgi ranges
I think for now we will pass a block to the user so that he can grab one artifact from the ones in that range.
so I'd like to know how much you guys will support and see how we can use it.
can you make the transitive mechanism pluggable to people can specify ways to find the dependencies of a bundle ?

Assaf: artifacts will be responsible for resolving their dependencies

ah super.
that's how we did it. Well for projects, but easy to port to artifacts instead.
do you have a timeline in mind for this stuff ?

Assaf: nope

I am going to post a proper post to buildr dev list and open an issue to track this down. I will probably fork Assaf's github repository to be able to work on it.

Antoine