Hey Karl, Thank you very much for your response and for all your work over the years! :-)
Now that I'm awake and not desperate to go to bed, I found the issue reported by someone else, but NOT on maven: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINVOKER-283 However the comment from Michael Osipov suggests that it probably has been identified in Maven and is likely included with 3.8.3 which (awesome to hear) is coming out very soon. Thanks to everyone who jumped on the ticket. I'll add my 2c there in a minute - it's already closed (harsh) but a bit of follow up is necessary. To be clear, I wasn't complaining about Maven, I've been using it since 2.0.4 or maybe earlier and have always been a huge fan. It's a hairy beast and progress necessitates making calls to break things sometimes. I don't know if that's what this is, or if it's just a regression because hairy, but either way, it's normal for software to have various issues over various versions through its lifetime. The issue is that Brew has a very narrow view of "use only the latest" which is never practical. Such impractical views are regularly the work of Apple and deciphels thereof but you won't find that in Debian where you can get stuff from WAY back IF you need it. Same for ubu and I imagine same for most distros. I mean, look at maven central, you need something from 2005? No problem. Brew: You need something from LAST WEEK - absolutely not! :-D Hilarious. Cheers, Fred. On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 09:11, Karl Heinz Marbaise <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 30.09.21 15:49, Fred Cooke wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We've hit an issue with maven 3.8.2 which a lot of our clients use on > macs > > through Brew and although brew supports the latest 3.8, 3.5, 3.3, 3.2 > > versions it does not support 3.8.1 which doesn't have the regression and > > does not have 3.6 which was also fine for our purposes. > > > > I'm not sure if the issue we've got has been reported (not by me at > least) > > and I can certainly get that information, but it'd be helpful if someone > > like Robert of Stephen could chime in on this PR: > > > > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/86192 < Put 3.6.3 back in > > Brew on mac as an option. > > First It would be very helpful to know about what you are talking? Have > you created an JIRA issue for it? Have you checked the JIRA for it if > one already exist? > > Furthermore If someone has an issue with a particular Maven version than > use the most recent one of that's not possible go down one > version...that's it... > > Most important here is to report such things. If we don't know anything > how could we know and even more important how could we fix it.. > > Another thing is why should one of our devs get into a homebrew parts? > Also as Michael already wrote... > > > The general approach is that every new version supersedes old > version. There is no old minor version support. > > > Forget anything before 3.5.4 or even 3.6.3. If 3.8.3 proves to be > regression-free, forget 3.6.3 as > > Always use the most recent one... > > Kind regards > Karl Heinz Marbaise > > > > > I don't mind if in support or against my comments and intent, just keen > to > > see a resolution for ~50 developers :-D > > > > Regards, > > > > Fred (3am, off to bed!) > > >
