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Bug 353592 - [Usability] Automatic addition of transitive dependencies
Summary: [Usability] Automatic addition of transitive dependencies
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Tigerstripe
Classification: Technology
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 0.5M0   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-08-02 10:19 EDT by Navid Mehregani CLA
Modified: 2011-08-03 01:46 EDT (History)
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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.