On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> > On 29/12/2009, at 8:18 PM, Arnaud HERITIER wrote: > > > +1 with Ralph. It is what I have in mind. the problem is that we already > > moved from 2.1 to 3.0 and finally we should produce a 2.5 (our users will > be > > lost). > > But I agree, 3.0 isn't a 3.0, it is 100% backward compatible with 2.X. > And > > more annoying we are talking about having backward incompatibilities > > (removing some stuffs) in 3.1. > > I'm not comfortable with that. > > I tend to agree, but I think the target has moved so much, especially with > a lot of public talks about the versions, that changing anything might cause > further confusion. > yes. it's impossible to change. > > What about something like this: > - 2.3 (or 2.9?) release that just adds all the deprecations (kind of like > what Lucene did before a major rev). > - 3.0 release retains deprecated functionality, with a --strict mode to > fail instead of warning (I haven't seen this, but ISTR Brian saying this was > going to be added, or is already there, at ApacheCon) > - 3.1 can then drop the functionality > > So, 3.0 essentially drops the functionality, with a "grace period" - which > is closer to what users might expect without changing the current story. > +1, with the strict mode activated by default in 3.0. We could have an option in settings.xml to deactivate it for example. > > WDYT? > I agree. The problem will be in 3.1. We'll be able to remove things deprecated in 3.0 but nothing more. We'll have to see what we'll do if we have big changes. For me the most important problem to work on (post 3.0), will be how we manage different versions of POMs and metadata. This will have an important impact for our users. cheers, > > - Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > br...@apache.org > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
