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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/10/30 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> ok.  I see it is not listed as a dependency in the web-commons pom.xml.
>> This looks like the problem as all the others are there.  When I add it in I
>> am getting a problem
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>> 'dependencies.dependency.version' is missing for
>> org.hisp.dhis:dhis-service-aggregationengine-default
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>> Can't quite figure this out as I thought depency info is coming from
>> parent project.  Still looking ...
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>> Cheers
>> Bob
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> Problem was that the aggregationengine dependency was not included in the
> dependency management section in the root pom. Instead it was defined with
> version directly in the dhis-web-excelreporting project. I wanted to phase
> out that project but the VN team needs it for the excel reporting module, so
> I guess someone just forgot to define it in the root.
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> FYI the purpose of dependency management mechanism defined in the root pom
> is to make all dependencies, including transitive, inherit its settings.
> This is especially useful for the version attribute, both for upgrading the
> version of libs using throughout the application and controlling the version
> of third-party, transitive libs.
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Yes I realize this.  But I figured that if it was being built that the
dependency MUST be in the pom.xml.  I see that's not the case.


> Maven is your friend:-)
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With friend like this ... :-)  But I do agree (sort of).

Regards
Bob




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