Fair enough. 

As a user of both tools I think there might be a need to distinguish between 
what is available in new installs and what just works due to legacy installs.

E.g. the version drop down could hide all the 2.x versions.

But I realize that even for new installs you might have a new for old version 
so there is probably no right way to make it simple and powerful at the same 
time ;-) 

Manfred


Arnaud Héritier wrote on 22.05.2015 01:07:

> Hi Manfred,
> 
>  With my Maven committer hat I would prefer to restrict the default
> choices to the latest stable releases we have.
> 
>  With my Jenkins committer hat I see this as an enhancement request.
> Jenkins should allow for each product to limit/classify the proposed
> version. For sure the rule won't be the same for Maven, Gradle, Ant and the
> list for each product will evolve. For sure I cannot for now remove older
> versions to add the most recent because it will be considered as a
> bug/regression for current users who are using it to automatically install
> an old Maven version (the catalog is used by all instances, its not
> something integrated/hardcoded in jenkins). It is exactly the problem that
> groovy has today with the shutdown of codehaus (
> https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/INFRA-310)
> 
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Manfred Moser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hm ... isnt the fact that Maven 2.x is deprecated reason enough to NOT
>> offer it in Jenkins. From my memory 2.0.8 and 2.0.9 had some severe
>> problems and only 2.0.10 sort of fixed things.
>>
>> Personally I would think that you should restrict the list in Jenkins even
>> excluding 2.x altogether. Or maybe just having 2.2.1 only.
>>
>> And if someone really needs it they can always install whatever version
>> (and pain) they choose via the tar.gz/zip archive method based off a
>> different server.
>>
>> Manfred
>>
>> Arnaud Héritier wrote on 21.05.2015 15:21:
>>
>> > Jason,
>> >
>> >  It don't find binaries of < 2.0.9 in central. Did I miss something ?
>> >
>> >  I would like (for jenkins) to not remove old releases from the catalog
>> > without a real reason ...
>> >
>> > Arnaud
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Why don't you just use Maven Central. Those copies are not going
>> anywhere.
>> >>
>> >> On May 21, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Arnaud Héritier <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Resurrecting this thread.
>> >> > Having a standardised place to find all versions was a good thing
>> >> > Because of the change jenkins doesn't propose anything > 3.2.2
>> because it
>> >> > is checking only in http://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/
>> >> > And it doesn't see the content of https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist
>> >> > /release/maven/maven-3/
>> >> > Sadly no central isn't a better solution
>> >> > * >= 2.0.9 :
>> >> > http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/
>> >> > * < 2.0.9 : not available in central AFAIK (yes they are old but ..)
>> >> >
>> >> > Before fixing the Jenkins Catalog (
>> >> > https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/INFRA-181) I would need to have
>> our
>> >> > feedback to have a long term solution if possible
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Why do you need it there?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The way binaries are kept at Apache is inconsistent. How it evolved
>> over
>> >> >> time where things disappear from one place to another (official
>> >> >> distribution to archives) I don't find makes much sense but that's
>> the
>> >> way
>> >> >> it is. If you require a distribution in a standard place take it from
>> >> Maven
>> >> >> Central. It will always be in the same place.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Dec 29, 2014, at 12:51 AM, Milos Kleint <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> Hello,
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> for some reason 3.2.3 is not available in the archives, is that
>> >> >> intentional
>> >> >>> or something went wrong with the 3.2.5 release?
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Thanks
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Milos
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Jason
>> >> >>
>> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> >> >> Jason van Zyl
>> >> >> Founder,  Apache Maven
>> >> >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
>> >> >> http://twitter.com/takari_io
>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people
>> can
>> >> >> fix bad ideas, but good ideas can't save bad people.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> -- Paul Graham
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
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>> >> > http://aheritier.net
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>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Jason
>> >>
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>> >> Founder, Takari and Apache Maven
>> >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
>> >> http://twitter.com/takari_io
>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------
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>> >> clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as
>> >> signs of decline and decay.
>> >>
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