Hi Enrico, that would mean a lot of incompatibilities which I wanted to avoid. If the checkstyle jar is updated first (8.xx), maven users wouldn't be able to use a current version for quite a while, because the Maven plugin would throw NoSuchMethodExceptions. I wanted to avoid this.
On the other hand, if the Maven plugin gets updated and released first, there is more time for users to migrate to a more recent maven plugin. Hence my PR. I really do not see the benefit of updating the checkstyle jar first and this having a period of time where Maven users cannot use a recent version of checkstyle at all. Maybe I did express the issue with checkstyle 8.24 in a wrong way. Users can already use it if they rewrite their checkstyle.xml. it's just that the maven plugin should not update the default checkstyle version to not break any default setups and force users to rewrite their checks. On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, 08:45 Enrico Olivelli, <eolive...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ben, > What about having a release of checkstyle with all of the requested changes > and then update maven plugin and then release it? > Checkstyle maven plugin is just a wrapper over checkstyle library. > > The best way would be that you (or anyone from Checkstyle) create a PR when > you are ready with the new release. > > I will be happy to help you move forward with this change and cut a release > > Cheers > Enrico > > Il lun 23 dic 2019, 07:21 Benjamin Marwell <bmarw...@gmail.com> ha > scritto: > > > Hi all, > > > > The checkstyle team is waiting for my PR: > > > > https://github.com/apache/maven-checkstyle-plugin/pull/18 > > > > The problem is, that they want to remove a method. If they do this too > > early, maven users will not be able to update the checkstyle version > > anymore. > > > > Also, the maven Checkstyle plugin cannot ship a Checkstyle version beyond > > 8.23 because of breaking changes. There is also an issue for this. > > > > This really needs some attention by someone with more responsibility. > > > > Please keep in mind that there is already a jira issue about the 8.24 > > incompability. I commented that they should have made it a major version, > > and maybe the checkstyle plugin will have to jump to a new major release > at > > some point? > > > > Thanks for looking into this. > > > > Ben > > >
