Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/11/2003 12:20:03 PM:

> Are they doing 1.1 only plugins? If the decision to break compatibility 
with
> 1.0 is made, then they do the same thing - dev their new versions on
> maven-plugins/plugin-name HEAD, and branch the old one only for 1.0
> compatible bugfixes.

So each plugin directory inside maven-plugins will have it's own branches? 
That's going to be very hard to manage if I'm developing on multiple 
plugins isn't it?

> I think that would be a crazy decision to make on behalf of the plugin
> owner, as there'll be no public releases of 1.1 for a long time yet. I 
don't
> see any need for people to break 1.0 compatibility inside a plugin right
> now. If they need POM v4 features, there are conditionals to do it.

That makes sense.

> Branching the entire maven-plugins tree is a statement that the plugin
> development is again tied to Maven, which just isn't the case.
I agree, but we're going to need a consistent, agreed way to handle it.

--
dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
Blog:      http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/





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