>But existing projects, assume your project works with the version it >resolves today, changing will obviously break
It is far from obvious. It is not fair to say "just reverse and the issue will reverse". It does not work like that. Please clarify the exact reason "Maven with the added proposal" would fail. >to fix a niche case and break the mainstream case from my window I understand it is important to keep the existing ecosystem workable (not just mainstream cases), however, I truly do not understand the failure mode you have in mind. Vladimir
