i'd like to see 2.0.8 released with the old artifact code and then
2.0.9 with the new one so we have a clear checkpoint to easily know if
there are problems with the new approach
On 9/10/07, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do people feel about trying to use maven-artifact in 2.0.x?
>
> The code has not changed, and backward compatibility will be
> maintained, and from Mark's trials it appears to work. Is this
> correct Mark? The ITs run using the decoupled version?
>
> The question is what are the criteria to decide if this is viable?
>
> 1) All plugins using the old artifacts must work (we need those smoke
> test projects in plugins)
> 2) Code must be binary compatible (easy to check with clirr)
>
> The only thing I can see as a problem right now is if people directly
> depend on maven-artifact-manager (would you guess that's the api?)
> then without a modification for the request of that would cause a
> problem. This needs to be fixed in 2.1 as well and I was just going
> to flip any requests for
>
> org.apache.maven:maven-artifact
> org.apache.maven:maven-artifact-manager
> org.apache.maven:maven-repository-metadata
>
> into a request for
>
> org.apache.maven.artifact:maven-artifact
>
> which containers everything required.
>
> A little artifact filter would do the trick.
>
> We are going to have to maintain backward compat in maven-artifact
> for a long time anyway because of plugins using it directly. We are
> going to have to support 2.0.x for a long time and having to maintain
> divergent copies of maven-artifact will very much suck ass. Maven
> 2.0.x is going to be used for a long time, and that's fine, but the
> easier to maintain the better.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
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> Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven
> jason at sonatype dot com
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