please_maven

Overview ¶

Package main implements please_maven, a command-line tool to find dependencies from a remote Maven repo (typically Maven Central, but can be others).

This is a fairly non-trivial task since the pom.xml format is complex and Maven is basically just a static file server for them. We do our best at understanding it. Of course other packages exist that can parse it, but we prefer not to use them since they're Java, and would require shipping a very large binary, but more significantly it did not seem easy to make them behave as we wanted.