On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:09 PM Michael Keppler <michael.kepp...@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Am 27.02.2023 um 09:30 schrieb Mickael Istria:
> > I agree that Orbit duplicating a bundle that exists in a usable state
> > upstream can be the root of many other issues. As we have an example
> > here that this has a cost to troubleshot, and that there was probably
> > a cost in setting up the Orbit clone;
>
> There is probably a simple reason: Doing the same as before. If projects
> are used to consuming from Orbit since many years, they will probably
> continue to do so, unless someone basically stops the process for
> accepting new Orbit uploads. Quite honestly, even I had the impression
> that both using Orbit and Maven directly are perfectly fine, until this
> discussion started.
>
> That being said, I also have one more concern: Orbit simplified many
> projects using the same version of a library, by assuming that new
> releases would all use the current Orbit update site at time of release.
> If every project has a locally wrapped Maven artifact instead, won't
> that lead to everyone consuming another version, depending on when that
> entry in the target was last updated?


Same problem happens with Orbit usage only if e.g. project A builds against
Orbit X and project B builds against Orbit Y aggregation will contain
multiple different versions of a dependency. So this is not a new issue at
all.


> Or is there something in SimRel
> infrastructure that magically unifies this somehow? As said before,
> multiple versions of a library are generally not a problem, unless we
> later notice that some Apache Commons library had a binary incompatible
> change in a service release (already happened), which is why I would
> expect more real world incompatibilities at runtime.
>
> Any solution to this version mix?
>
> Ciao, Michael
>
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