I think that first steps are:

1. release maven-api-meta as a shared component, given it has no dependency
https://maven.apache.org/ref/4.0.0-alpha-4/api/maven-api-meta/dependencies.html
Eventually renaming it maven-api-annotations, given it's the Java package name 
inside

2. release maven-api-xml as a shared component, given it only depends on 
previous one
https://maven.apache.org/ref/4.0.0-alpha-4/api/maven-api-xml/dependencies.html

then we'll refine the plan on Maven XML reimplementation of Plexus Utils XML 
classes and injection into Maven 4 distribution


Creating new Git repositories for
1. maven-api-annotations
2. and maven-api-xml
is easy, but it can't be deleted later: I need clear consensus on the creation 
and their name before doing the work.

Any objection?

Regards,

Hervé

Le mercredi 25 janvier 2023, 11:15:08 CET Guillaume Nodet a écrit :
> That sounds like a good plan.
> A few observations:
>   * the usage of the plexus xml classes should be deprecated along with the
> v3 model once the v4 api is stabilized and matured imho
>   * this will introduce a release cycle between maven-core / plexus-utils,
> which is not really clean even though it should not cause any real problem
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> Le ven. 30 déc. 2022 à 23:56, Hervé Boutemy <[email protected]> a
> 
> écrit :
> > ok, if everyone wants to go that route of clarifying dependency from Maven
> > on
> > plexus-utils, let's go and do it fully.
> > 
> > First, I'm lost if you call "plexus-xml" an artifact that is maintained at
> > Maven. So we'll need to rephrase with one strict convention: plexus-*
> > artifacts are maintained at Plexus, maven-* are maintained at Maven.
> 
> I was originally thinking about a new plexus artifact, but a maven one
> would be better.
> 
> > Then let's define where the strong dependency is:
> > correct me if I'm wrong, Maven core provides 5 classes from plexus-utils
> > 3.x
> > to the whole plugins/extensions ecosystem [1]:
> > 1. org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.Xpp3Dom
> > 2. org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.Xpp3DomBuilder
> > 3. org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlPullParser
> > 4. org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlPullParserException
> > 5. org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlSerializer
> > (it was only 4 classes in Maven 3, but Xpp3DomBuilder was added in Maven
> > 4)
> > 
> > then for compatibility reason these 5 classes can't have their public API
> > changed = it is the only place where there is a strong dependency from
> > whole
> > Maven to Plexus Utils
> > Because if any plugin uses an implementation at build time (old version,
> > for
> > example), at runtime, Maven core injects the Maven core provided classes.
> > 
> > 
> > For everything else that is available in Plexus Utils, we have
> > maven-shared-
> > utils that was created years ago and that was globally ignored [2].
> > If people want to migrate, they just can for years, independently in each
> > plugin or even in Maven core.
> > 
> > 
> > If we want to have a clean state, we can implement these 5 classes in the
> > current maven-xml-impl, that I propose to name maven-plexus-utils-xml, or
> > shorter maven-plexus-xml.
> > As the artifact name tells, it is maintained at Maven level. And "of
> > course",
> > it MUST NOT depend on Plexus Utils given the intent of getting out of that
> > dependency...
> > It is expected to be very stable, because it is a key compatibility
> > contract
> > between Maven core and the whole plugins/extensions ecosystem:
> > could/should be
> > extracted from Maven core releases, moved to shared/ components.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> > At Plexus Utils level, I propose that we (the Plexus org) do a version 4
> > that
> > removes the 5 classes, replacing with a dependency on maven-plexus-xml
> > that
> > was written in Maven.
> > Then when Maven core migrates to plexus-utils 4, it remove the current
> > need to
> > have inside Maven core a local shaded "plexus-utils" (that should have
> > been
> > named maven-plexus-utils for clarity) [3]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is that plan clear and accurate?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Hervé
> > 
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://github.com/apache/maven/blob/master/maven-core/src/main/resources/
> > META-INF/maven/extension.xml#L85
> > <https://github.com/apache/maven/blob/master/maven-core/src/main/resources
> > /META-INF/maven/extension.xml#L85>
> > 
> > [2] https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-shared-utils/
> > 
> > [3] https://github.com/apache/maven/tree/master/plexus-utils
> > 
> > Le vendredi 30 décembre 2022, 16:44:49 CET Guillaume Nodet a écrit :
> > > To reduce dependency from maven to plexus, we could keep the xml api and
> > > implementation which are used by maven 4 inside maven, and update
> > > plexus-utils (or the new plexus-xml) to be compatible with the new
> > > immutable DOM api from maven.
> > > 
> > > So this would mean:
> > >   * move the two re-implemented plexus classes from maven to a new
> > > 
> > > plexus-xml project:
> > https://github.com/apache/maven/tree/master/maven-xml-impl/src/main/java/o
> > rg> 
> > > /codehaus/plexus/util/xml
> > > 
> > >   * plexus-xml would depend on maven-api-xml and maven-xml-impl (or
> > > 
> > > whatever it will be renamed)
> > > 
> > >   * modify plexus-utils to depend on plexus-xml
> > > 
> > > One plexus-xml and plexus-utils are released, this would allow to remove
> > > 
> > > from maven:
> > >   * the two xml classes
> > >   * the repackaged plexus-utils
> > > 
> > > Le ven. 30 déc. 2022 à 16:21, Benjamin Marwell <[email protected]> a
> > > 
> > > écrit :
> > > > +1 to what Romain said. Let's reduce dependencies to other orgs where
> > > > possible and feasible. It is, in this case.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 30 Dec 2022, 10:27 Romain Manni-Bucau, <[email protected]>
> > > > 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi Hervé,
> > > > > 
> > > > > As mentionned in the thread I think it makes sense to freeze plexus
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > > > > slowly import to maven the related code so I'd be to import the
> > 
> > parts we
> > 
> > > > > need (guess some abstraction can be dropped at the same time).
> > > > > So +1 to split, -0 to do it at plexus, +1 to do it in maven.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Romain Manni-Bucau
> > > > > @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> |  Blog
> > > > > <https://rmannibucau.metawerx.net/> | Old Blog
> > > > > <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <
> > > > > https://github.com/rmannibucau> |
> > > > > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Book
> > > > > <
> > 
> > https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/java-ee-8-high-performanc
> > 
> > > > e
> > > > 
> > > > > Le ven. 30 déc. 2022 à 10:22, Hervé Boutemy <[email protected]>
> > 
> > a
> > 
> > > > > écrit :
> > > > > > while working on the XML side of Maven 4 immutable API, we had the
> > > > > > idea
> > > > > 
> > > > > of
> > > > > 
> > > > > > extracting the XML code from plexus-utils to a new separate
> > 
> > plexus-xml
> > 
> > > > > > artifact
> > > > > > that could be done for version 4
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > see https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/issues/228
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > any  objection?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Hervé
> > 
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