Howdy, I was chased away from Brew many times with the words "it's not a version manager" :)
Yes, Brew is a tool that helps you install stuff, but it really focus on "latest", and does not have a notion of package "version", they solve it (correct me if I'm wrong), by doing some trickeries around formulas (so X.0.1 and X.0.2 are actually TWO formulas). In short, I don\t want to be smartxss, but: - are you sure Brew is the tool you want to provision Maven? - Are you aware of SDKMAN (https://sdkman.io/) for example, that is able to do exactly what you need, out of the box? But in general, I am completely aligned with Karl, try latest (as you noticed, soon 3.8.3) HTH Tamas On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:41 AM Fred Cooke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!) > > > > > >
