Make spring-aop required for spring-context (in spring-context POM) [SPR-6578]

[spring-projects-issues]

Keith Donald opened SPR-6578 and commented

The ivy says its required to compile.
I think the .pom is wrong.

The result is spring-aop is not included when obtaining spring-context from Maven Central for spring apps; it must be added to pom manually.

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Affects: 3.0 GA

Referenced from: commits 38cf127

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

Actually, spring-aop is optional there. spring-context only needs it when building scoped proxies which is an optional feature that needs to be explicitly activated. We may nevertheless decide to mark it as required for convenience but it technically is not.

Juergen

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

I eventually marked spring-aop as required since it is arguably required for several mainstream features in the context package, even if 90% of the context features can be used without spring-aop as well.

Juergen