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Artifact with different sets of dependencies switched by profiles

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Hi,

I am currently working on making the Apache Flex project able to release as Maven artifacts. For that I have created a tool that mavenizes a Flex SDK by generating poms and copying and renaming the libraries it consists of. All is working nicely. In contrast to Java in Flex you can sort of choose to use static linking (default) or dynamic linking (rsl). In Flexmojos this is controlled by having a maven scope of "rsl" for dynamically linked libraries.

Static linking:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.flex.framework</groupId>
<artifactId>spark</artifactId>
<version>4.12.1.20140427</version>
<type>swc</type>
</dependency>

Dynamic linking:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.flex.framework</groupId>
<artifactId>spark</artifactId>
<version>4.12.1.20140427</version>
<type>swc</type>
<scope>rsl</scope>
</dependency>

Now I wanted to make it easier for people using Flex so I generated two profiles in my poms. The default one active by default using static linking and one "flex-rsl" using dynamic linking wherever possible.
I was thinking of enabling that second profile by setting a property:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>org.apache.flex</groupId>
<artifactId>framework</artifactId>
<version>4.12.1.20140427</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>

<profiles>
<profile>
<id>default</id>

<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>

<dependencies>

... A lot of dependencies ...

</dependencies>
</profile>

<profile>
<id>flex-rsl</id>

<activation>
<property>
<name>flex.framework.scope</name>
<value>rsl</value>
</property>
</activation>

<dependencies>

... A lot of dependencies ...

</dependencies>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>

Now I tried activating that second profile by setting that property in the module referencing that pom artifact:

<properties>
<flex.version>4.12.1.20140427</flex.version>
<!-- Turn on rsl linking of swc dependencies -->
<flex.framework.scope>rsl</flex.framework.scope>
</properties>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.flex</groupId>
<artifactId>framework</artifactId>
<version>${flex.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

But it seems this doesn't work ... so my question is ... is it possible to do what I want? If not ... is there a way I could achieve this? After all it seems classifiers for pom modules don't seem to exist.
Or am I wrong here and I could simply generate several pom files "framework-4.12.1.20140427.pom" and "framework-4.12.1.20140427-rsl.pom"?

Chris

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