Maybe bump default to at least Java 8 for source/target of maven-compiler-plugin? Or maybe switch to a default for release instead if we decide on a Java 11+ runtime requirement for mvn4.
/Anders (mobile) Den tors 21 juli 2022 20:24Benjamin Marwell <bmarw...@apache.org> skrev: > Hi everyone, > > as discussed in Slack, here are a few ideas for Maven 4.0 Plugin > default's changes. > Rationale: Convention over configuration, but things have diverged > from when Maven 3 was started. > > * Set the default Java Source file encoding to UTF-8. > This seems to receive a broad agreement. Not only is UTF-8 default on > most platforms nowadays (UTF-16 on Windows), it also aligns with Java > 18+, most user configurations and getting rid of the annoying warning > "is platform dependent". Plus, it is 100% compatible with ASCII and > mostly compatible with other encodings. > > * Setting the default javadoc-plugin verbosity to quiet via "quiet=true". > [1] > This was the default before Java 1.4.2 anyway, and it will only make > the list of generated html sites disappear. > > * Setting failOnMissingWebXml to "false" by default. Romain suggested > this was planned for the next major release, but I was not able to > find an issue about this. > > There seems to have been some jira tickets about this, all set to > resolved+fixed, but I cannot see the actual implementation which made > it into the plugin. [2], [3]. Setting the default to "false" based on > the existence of annotations or a dependency might still be a valid > idea, but this got vastly more complicated, no question. So just > setting it to "false" might do it, but it will break builds which do > not use annotations. There are good reasons for this, e.g. using a > particular startup order for listeners. > > That said, I am not sure about the last one unless we can identify > *for sure* there are *some* kind servlets/listeners etc. present in > the .war file. My -0.5 on this one unless someone can come up with a > neat solution. > > So, what do you think? Are there more sane defaults we should set for > Maven 4.0? > > - Ben > > > [1]: > https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/test-jar-mojo.html#quiet > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-396 > [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-262 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
