The core issue is one of transitive dependencies clashes.
For example, I had a problem the other day with the antrun plugin which depends on ant.ant-1.6.5, and we had a dependency of ant-trax (1.7.0), which depends on org.apache.ant.ant-1.7.0. Those aren't the same project, so Maven couldn't yell at us for having a clashing dependency. Not that I know if the plugin system would have warned me of the clash, it was a fun bug :) With something as low as Commons, this transitive dependency clash is really, really valuable. Hen On 7/10/07, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Because it has already been discussed, I might as well throw in my two cents. Whatever direction commons decides to take, it's worth acknowledging that more than a few popular Apache projects moved to org.apache.whatever.* without relocating their previous releases. They broke with the Maven 1 conventions and released new versions under the naming conventions for Maven 2. Because developers must modify their POM to update the version number anyway, editing the groupId is a trivial additive. Paul Henri Yandell wrote: > On 7/9/07, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7/9/07, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > For development of new releases, should the commons-* folders be >> forgone >> > and use org.apache.commons now? >> >> Check the list archives for some past discussion... it has to be >> handled carefully with old releases "relocated" in the central >> repository, or downstream users will be adversely affected. >> >> Nabble turns up a few relevant posts: >> http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=317&local=y&query=commons+maven+groupid >> > > Yeah, my view is that Maven need a better system :) I keep meaning to > dig into the code of how to do such a thing. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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