Maven and ABCL

[Mark Evenson]

On 4/7/17 17:50, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> I'm using :mvn ASDF components and ran into a problem with having multiple
> versions of the same library. The issue boils down to the fact that ABCL
> currently processes dependencies for :mvn components one at a time, which
> doesn't take into account mutual dependencies. Attached is a
> function resolve-multiple-maven-dependencies, which takes a set of maven
> components and computes the dependencies.

[…]

> The attached code also has features not yet supported by the :mvn syntax
> that are really needed: The ability to override versions of a particular
> dependency that a downstream dependency specifies, and the ability to
> exclude certain artifacts altogether.
> 
> Mark has suggested that the maven resolution could be moved to the ASDF
> planning stage, which sounds like a good idea. 

[…]

I have [updated abcl-1.5.0 to][maven-3.2.1] which should serve as a good
basis for work on pushing the resolution into the ASDF planning layer.

In addition, [t/maven][] contains Alan's test code to follow along at home.


[asdf-3.2.1]:
https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/abcl/abcl/commit/a479be0771b037b091bfc75e163000fcb28f3a89

[t/maven]:
https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/abcl/abcl/commit/4247dfe96284fb90faced00da1e30d92bf43e2e6


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