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Bug 353592

Summary: [Usability] Automatic addition of transitive dependencies
Product: [Technology] Tigerstripe Reporter: Navid Mehregani <nmehrega>
Component: CoreAssignee: Project Inbox <tigerstripe.core-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: chrhartl
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 0.5M0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Description Navid Mehregani CLA 2011-08-02 10:19:04 EDT 
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Currently in Tigerstripe there is no way to add transitive dependencies automatically.  If for example, a TS project depends on a module, which also depends on other TS modules and the TS projects extends an artifact from a transitive dependency, then a compile error is displayed and the user is left in the dark as to which module the artifact came from.

Users have to manually determine which modules to add to their dependency.  This can get pretty confusing if users are dealing with a complex dependency hierarchy.  

This enhancement provides a way to automatically import transitive dependencies or to automatically import *required* dependencies.  This can be provided as a button in the dependencies tab of tigerstripe.xml file.  Label of button can be 'Add Required Dependencies' or something similar.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Chris Hartley CLA 2011-08-03 01:46:23 EDT 
Navid,

I'm not sure that I understand what the issue is.

We need to be careful here that we don't add in unnecessary dependencies.