I think it's very feasible to get rid of <modules> and replace with <projects> in the POM. Without breaking compatibility of course, as we could keep <modules> in POM 4.0 and use <projects> in POM 4.1.
Le lun. 5 août 2024 à 19:38, Oliver B. Fischer <o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net> a écrit : > > Hi Martin, > > I would say the term module is totally fine. We have, as everywhere in > our human word, a lot of homonyms, everythere. The term module is as > good as project or component or even partition. > > What is more imporant is to have a good definion of a term before using > it. So what is the definition of a Maven subproject and what there is it > documented. > > And how to explain a junior dev why he must call it Maven subproject but > must write module. IMHO this would cause much more confusion then we all > would profit from it. > > j2c, > > Oliver > > Am 05.08.24 um 14:14 schrieb Martin Desruisseaux: > > In order to avoid confusion between "Maven module" and "Java module", > > I suggest to update documentation for using "Maven sub-project" > > instead of "Maven module". However, the <module> XML elements in the > > POM would be unchanged for compatibility reason. There is apparently > > not so many places in the documentation that need to be updated. The > > ones that I found are part of pull request #1625: > > > > https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1625/commits/4bc46b4114396e6025645f3c5dae888f3d386981 > > > > > > Martin > > > > > -- > N Oliver B. Fischer > A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany > P +49 30 44793251 > M +49 178 7903538 > E o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
