On 29 Oct 07, at 8:31 PM 29 Oct 07, Brett Porter wrote:
Ok, I can file that for starters.
I think we'll need to make clear instructions about setting up a
repository manager to handle this scenario since I bet there are a
lot of people using simple m1 repos internally for their m1
projects. And notably the Sun m1 repository contains things that are
not in their m2 repo - we need to be converting and syncing that to
central if this feature is gone, IMO.
It's simply unbelievable the situation we have with them. That someone
can't spend a few hours a week in their entire organization to fix
this is ridiculous. I'm sure they can figure out how to convert their
repositories. But I'm certainly not considering that as a valid
argument for holding the rest of the world back. They can use 2.0.x.
The thing is that this is not about projects switching to m2, but
their dependencies - and I've seen a bug filed as recently as this
month looking for improved legacy repo support.
Anyone starting a new project will use m2. Given our resources and
where the standard usage pattern is going it's time to cull the use of
m1 repositories in Maven 2.1.x. That layout where a POM is not
required just creates so much grief it's something we can just do
without. Support will continue in 2.0.x but going forward it's
something I think we can knock out. We just need to point people at
the conversion tool. Yes, the people with lots of Jelly get dinged but
we can't support everyone to do everything and 2.1 it's time to make
the switch and get rid of that code. Again it's been two years.
Anyway, it's certainly one for the release notes - there used to be
a page on the wiki tracking what has changed in a user-friendly
format but I can't find it. Is it time to start one again?
Thanks,
Brett
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Thanks,
Jason
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