doesn't just indicate leniency in the face of conflict. Jesus fucking christ.
Anyhow, we can't cope with velocity-1.7.1-beta, so we have to provide a "soft"
recommendation for velocity-1.6.4.
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dependencies. This will ensure that Maven does not erroneously omit a newer
dependency of some other library because we happen to specify an older version.
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version numbers and then puzzle over why things don't work when we try to use
new plugin features and forget to check what version number said feature was
introduced into the plugin and be sure that we're using that version. Yay!
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Velocity stuff actually works with a non-hacked Velocity implementation, and
specifically VelocityUtil and ClasspathResourceLoader are used all over the
place for great justice, so we want to support that.
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things, which ended up being infeasible. But I'll leave this test machinery
here as it may be useful in the future if we want to add more
com.samskivert.jdcb unit tests.
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Instead of fixing this utterly ridiculous problem, some guy submitted a patch
to detect when someone was using spaces in the text of <compilerArgument> and
spit out a warning, directing them to a new FAQ entry explaining the
limitation, and telling them this retarded workaround:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOMPILER-130
He then included a bunch of code to allow this warning to be turned off.
WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!?
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public interfaces and if you are making use of protected members, you should be
looking at the source.
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fucking arbitrary version you like". Fortunately, it is possible to instruct
Maven to do what would be the sensible default: use the latest release version
of the plugin.
Now that I have done so, the magical insertion of a -link argument for the Java
API is working. Much to my chagrin, the associated <detectLinks> option of the
javadoc plugin is a cruel joke.
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Sun "enhanced" the jar file specification to allow dependencies to be expressed
inside jar files, which cause the JVM to try to magically add dependent jar
files to the classpath. This is half-assed and wrong in too many ways to
enumerate here.
They then helpfully added activation.jar to mail.jar under the multiple
misguided assumptions that no one would ever possibly need to use mail.jar
without also having activation.jar in their classpath, with that exact name,
and located precisely in the same directory. I can't possibly imagine devating
from those implicit requirements.
Maven then upped the ante on this little fiasco by deciding that any time the
Java compiler generates a warning that they can't parse, they should fail the
build. Clearly it's critical that your build system be conversant in every
possible warning that might be emitted by your compiler. As a result, when I
fix their boneheaded default of suppressing warnings by default, the build now
fails with this demonstration of awesomeness:
could not parse error message: warning: [path] bad path element
"/home/mdb/.m2/repository/javax/mail/mail/1.4.1/activation.jar": no such file
or directory
Thank you Sun, and thank you Maven.
Fortunately, I can tell javac to not emit warnings for these bogus jar
dependencies, which I have done.
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1. Warnings and deprecations are not shown by default.
2. Documentation shows use of <compilerArgument> with mulitple arguments in a
single element:
<compilerArgument>-foo -bar</compilerArgument>
which is a bald-faced lie. Only a single argument is allowed inside a
<compilerArgument> element. Web search turns up "helpful" advice to use
multiple elements:
<compilerArgument>-foo</compilerArgument>
<compilerArgument>-bar</compilerArgument>
Fair enough, and also a bald-faced lie. After spending a bunch of time
debugging why my compiler arguments were not working, I discovered that Maven
was just (silently) using the last one and ignoring/overwriting all of the
previous arguments.
I had noticed while poring over the documentation that it was also possible to
use the so-called "Map version" (whatever that means), which uses this
completely fucking stupid syntax:
<compilerArguments>
<foo/>
<bar/>
</compilerArguments>
Why is that syntax completely fucking stupid, you might ask? Well, dear reader,
because the arguments that I'm actually passing end up looking like this:
<compilerArguments>
<Xlint/>
<Xlint:-serial/>
</compilerArguments>
which is a case study in how not to represent information in XML. I didn't even
try that originally because I was sure that it would not work, given the wacky
non-[a-zA-z]+ nature of the argument I needed to supply. The fact that it does
work gives me the fear.
You might wonder if the following form would provide satisfaction:
<compilerArguments>
<compilerArgument>-Xlint</compilerArgument>
<compilerArgument>-Xlint:-serial</compilerArgument>
</compilerArguments>
Other than being absurdly verbose, it seems right in line with The Maven Way
(tm). However, that results in -compilerArgument=-Xlint and
-compilerArgument=-Xlint:-serial being passed to the compiler. Hilarity
naturally ensues.
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Ray J. Greenwell