Just indicate a date in the pom at which point the relocation warning turns
into a relocation error. <expires>date</>. So you warn for a year then you
keep it up on central for an additional year in which it throws errors but
indicates to the redirection information.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:55 AM Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote:

> +1
>
> probably will start by improving the documentation, because this is really
> the
> current intent from what I can understand: a relocation pom only provides
> relocation info only, no jar, no build info
>
> like https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ant/ant/1.7.0/ that points to
> https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/ant/ant/1.7.0/
>
> AFAIK, there is no modification expected on existing artifacts, just
> relocation
> poms to create at old coordinates to point new coordinates = the new
> canonical
> coordinates
>
>
> then perhaps the way it is implemented can be improved: one issue I can
> see
> (from a pure theoretical point of view, I didn't take time to make
> extensive
> tests) is to define when you stop publishing relocation poms at old
> coordinates, ie. starting with which version?
> and how to be sure that the relocation is detected when resolving both old
> coordinates and new coordinates that are both canonical coordinates?
>
> for example ant:ant:1.6.5 (= canonical coordinates for this release) and
> org.apache.ant:ant:1.8.0 (= canonical coordinates for this release), given
> there is no relocation pom published for ant:ant:1.8.0, only for
> ant:ant:1.7.0
>
> Regards,
>
> Hervé
>
> Le mercredi 19 février 2020, 16:48:38 CET Jonathan Valliere a écrit :
> > Maybe we need to rework how this functionality works.  It should be
> > essentially a symlink with a warning message within the resolver so they
> > both resolve to the same artifact.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:58 AM Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote:
> > > In real practice it doesn't work well though, as someone already
> brought
> > > up. It can result in duplication of libraries on the class path (the
> same
> > > library under different groupId).
> > >
> > > /Anders (mobile)
> > >
> > > Den ons 19 feb. 2020 14:52Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org>
> > >
> > > skrev:
> > > > I set up some simple projects and tested this manually. As best I can
> > > > determine, relocation does work as one would hope, at least in Maven
> > > > and M2E. (No idea about Gradle or Ivy.)
> > > >
> > > > The documentation should probably be rewritten because it assumes you
> > > > can change published pom.xml files, which isn't true on Maven
> central.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 3:36 PM Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr
> >
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > you can test with
> > > > > https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ant/ant/1.7.0/ant-1.7.0.pom
> > >
> > >
> https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/javax/xml/jaxrpc/1.1/jaxrpc-1.1.pom
> > >
> > >
> > >
> https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/javax/xml/jaxb-api/1.0.1/jaxb-api-1.0
> > > .1.pom>
> > > > > testing relocation was on my todo list for years, but I never
> really
> > >
> > > test
> > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Hervé
> > > > >
> > > > > Le dimanche 16 février 2020, 15:18:17 CET Elliotte Rusty Harold a
> > >
> > > écrit :
> > > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 2:35 AM <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote:
> > > > > > > see:
> > > > > > > -
> > >
> > >
> http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.6.3/maven-model/maven.html#class_relocation
> > >
> > > > > > > - https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-relocation.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The guide to relocation seems to assume a lot more access and
> > > > > > control
> > > > > > to the repo than is the case with public repositories like Maven
> > > > > > Central. I'm not sure it's actually possible to follow these
> steps
> > > > > > today, though perhaps that could be changed.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd still like to see the code in the repo that implements
> support
> > >
> > > for
> > >
> > > > > > this or, better yet, a sample project that demonstrates
> relocation
> > > > > > is
> > > > > > possible.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If this does work, I can see a lot of use cases for it, but I'm
> > > > > > currently working with the assumption it is not.
> > > > >
> > > > >
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