wow, great accomplishement! thank you Karl for pushing this with so much patience
and of course, thanks to everybody who helped too: Karl was not completely alone on this task, even if he did a good part of it Now we can work on plugins cleanup after pushing them to Maven 3 prerequisite. And don't forget, this is a step to Maven 4: the plan is not precisely defined, there are multiple tracks in parallel, with loose coordination, but the general idea is there Regards, Hervé Le jeudi 28 mai 2015 08:51:33 Karl Heinz Marbaise a écrit : > Hi to all, > > we have accomplished the whole release line which means all plugins are > now at minium of Maven 2.2.1 (inkl. Java 1.5) except the known exceptions... > > https://builds.apache.org/view/All/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/dist-tool-prere > quisites.html > > > Congrats to all who supported and helped here. > > Kind regards > Karl Heinz marbaise > > On 3/20/15 10:39 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote: > > Dear Maven Users, > > > > based on the End of Life of Maven 2.2.1 (a year ago) now the time has > > come to make the final releases of Apache Maven Plugins which support > > Maven 2.X. > > > > If you continue to use Maven 2.2.1 or earlier you have to be aware of > > using an completely unsupported Maven version as well as unsupported > > Maven plugins for the future. > > > > If you want to have access to new features and bug fixes it is really > > necessary to update to new Maven versions. > > > > The next Maven version which will go the same way as Maven 2.2.1 > > will be Maven 3.0.5. > > > > We have documented the final releases of plugins which support Maven > > 2.2.1 in relationship with JDK 1.5. > > > > The complete list can be found here: > > > > http://maven.apache.org/maven-2.x-eol.html > > > > The next step on our roadmap is to lift all plugin versions to 3.0.0 to > > make clear those plugins will only work with Maven 3.0+ furthermore the > > Java minimum requirement will be lifted to JDK 1.6 as well. > > > > No "rule" without exceptions. Here they come: > > * maven-site-plugin (Version 3.4) > > > > See the docs of the plugin for usage in Maven 2.X > > > > * maven-compiler-plugin (Version 3.2) > > > > which works with Maven 2.2.1. > > > > * maven-plugin-plugin (Version 3.4) > > > > which works with Maven 2.2.1 > > > > * maven-pmd-plugin (Version 3.4) > > > > which works with Maven 2.2.1 but needs JDK 1.6 > > > > The following plugins already have the Maven 3.0+ requirement: > > > > * maven-scm-publish-plugin (Version 1.1) > > * maven-shade-plugin (Version 2.3) > > > > Currently the plan is to make those plugins which are already at 3.X > > > > being lifted to version 3.5.0 for Maven 3.X only: > > * maven-site-plugin (Version 3.5.0) > > > > * maven-compiler-plugin (Version 3.5.0) > > > > * maven-plugin-plugin (Version 3.5.0) > > > > * maven-pmd-plugin (Version 3.5.0) > > > > All other plugins will get a version 3.0.0 to identify Maven 3.X only > > plugins and the JDK minimum will be 1.6. > > > > Example: > > So to make things more clearer here is an example: > > > > Currently we have the maven-clean-plugin with version 2.6.1. > > > > This plugin supports Maven 2.2.1 and JDK 1.5 minimum. > > > > This plugin will get a new major release with version 3.0.0 > > which has the Maven minimum 3.0 AND Java minimum 1.6. > > > > Kind regards > > - The Apache Maven Team > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
