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@khmarbaise @theasf why #Maven does not have a simple solution to install a dependency from the command line like e.g. #npm install which adds it to the pom.xml ? #pomxml #pom

John S Dec 16, 2022

@buzzdee @khmarbaise @theasf I am not quite following what you are wanting. If you are just wanting to download an artifact to your local repo look at the command:

mvn dependency:get -Dartifact=groupId:artifactId:version -DrepoUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/

This does not modify pom.xml files.

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@john_s @khmarbaise @theasf I would like to have a simple command to add a dependency to a #Java #Maven project, which also adds it to the pom.xml #pom #pomxml The example command you provided seems long, complicated and hard to remember to me. I would like to have something like this: `mvn install groupId.artefactId` or `mvn add groupId.artefactId` which installs the newest stable release. If you need a special version e.g. `mvn install / add groupId.artefactId.version`

@buzzdee @john_s @theasf Based on that arises the question: "What is the newest stable release" ? (based on which criteria?)

@khmarbaise @john_s @theasf #npm uses #SemanticVersioning #semver https://semver.org/ but I think could be defined by #Maven

Semantic Versioning 2.0.0

Semantic Versioning spec and website

Semantic Versioning

@buzzdee @john_s @theasf SemVer only defines the versioning schema but not what a stable version is or not..and no it can not be defined by Maven because it's the task/definition of the authors of libs/tools.

@khmarbaise @john_s @theasf this is not an important point to me, then use the newest version. My point is it would be great if #Maven would provide simple commands

@buzzdee @john_s @theasf If you like to have such commands what about contributing to Maven or create such a tool(s) for getting newest/stable version. Also things like dependabot/renovate or alike already exist...(see on GitHub or alike; versions-maven-plugin; dependency check in IntelliJ plugin) etc.

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@khmarbaise @john_s @theasf I don't understand why you recommend third party tools like #dependabot etc. If I use 'yarn add graphql` it installs v16.6.0 to the package.json, which seems to be the newest stable version to me
https://www.npmjs.com/package/graphql https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/releases so this should be technically also possible for #Maven #packagejson #yarn

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