I suppose maven-artifact is a bad example here, since it's now
officially moving into its own structure in SVN. Perhaps a better one
would be the build planner/lifecycle APIs, or even the plugin-
resolution/management features. These aren't likely to separate from
the main Maven release cycle, so it becomes a bit of a problem
differentiating "approved" public APIs from the other guts of Maven.
This is what I had in mind when I threw this proposal together, even
though I opted for the most well-known API (maven-artifact). :-)
-john
On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Brett Porter wrote:
I'm definitely +1 on the idea.
I'm not sure whether aggregating them in one artifact makes sense
though (it sounds a bit like the embedder API too). It could be a
good way (in the interim) to start exposing "safe" functionality,
though I feel in the long term the public API of the individual
modules should be well defined enough that it isn't an issue any more.
- brett
On 16/08/2007, at 12:42 AM, John Casey wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to propose that for Maven trunk/2.1 we capture all plugin-
facing APIs and facades inside a single maven-api artifact. This
would enumerate in a very clear fashion the public APIs that we
need to support. We're approaching a turning point in Maven, where
we'll have plugins that could feasibly run in both 2.0.x and 2.x
(>= 2.1), and these plugins need a mechanism for coping with what
will probably be critical changes in the internals of Maven.
Recent discussions about artifact resolution from plugins begin to
point at this need (eg. using maven-artifact directly vs. using
the version of maven-artifact, along with accompanying interfaces,
that come with Maven itself). I understand that some of this might
seem redundant in the presence of new facades introduced to maven-
artifact itself...I was thinking of this more as a "This is
everything you can do with Maven from inside a Mojo" artifact.
WDYT?
-john
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