[MWAR-179] <packagingExcludes> should accept regexp to include/exclude specified jars

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.1-alpha-2
• Environment: any
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matthew Grzechocinski
• Created: 13/Jan/09 11:54
• Updated: 17/Feb/09 15:59
• Resolved: 17/Feb/09 15:59

Description

It will be nice to be able to pass regular expression fo <packagingExcludes>.
Now we can only specify WEB-INF/lib/*.jar and it will exclude all jars. What if I have o profile in which I want to exclude all external libraries which are stored on server (and there are many of them) but I want to include submodules of my application. Copying dependencies to profile with <scope>provided</scope> creates my pom really messy.

Summing up, It will be nice to set <packagingExcludes>^WEB-INF/lib/prefix*.jar<packagingExcludes> to exclude all jars except those which starts with prefix.
Can I expect this feature in the nearest future?

Issue Links

• duplicates: MWAR-81 Request enhancement to pattern matching for packagingIncludes/packagingExcludes functionality (regular expressions?)