Github user josephw commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/51#issuecomment-138302328
Even if it wasn't the intended use, way back in Maven 2:
<prerequisites>
<maven>4</maven>
</prerequisites>
would give:
$ mvn2 validate
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Unable to build project '/tmp/pom.xml; it requires Maven version
4
The current language in the documentation is still:
The minimum version of Maven required to build the project.
so I think this PR clarifies the current intent.
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