On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm not sure how it is relevant whether commons users use maven 2 or 3. >>> Even if we require Maven 3 to build a commons component anyone can still >>> use it in a Maven 2 build. They only would require Maven 3 if they actually >>> want to build one of our artifacts on their own. >> > > But remember that the ASF releases source, so we cannot arbitrarily > change build procedures without at least considering how that might > affect downstream users.
Sources are delivered via svn and tar-balls. We are distributing sources, but I fail to understand why we can't define the requirements for building them ourselves. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
