On 29/01/2010, at 5:37 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:

> 
> On 2010-01-29, at 6:29 AM, Brett Porter wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 29/01/2010, at 4:26 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
>> 
>>> -1
>> 
>> got a reason? :)
>> 
> 
> We should endeavour to leave only the build time related plugins being locked 
> down. Things like the IDE generating plugins, the site stuff, and archetype 
> stuff should all be removed eventually and decoupled from the core entirely. 
> We're just making a bigger mess tying all this stuff together and trying to 
> maintain it as a functioning unit in lock step.

I'm not sure that's addressing the same concern - I know there are problems 
with, say, the site plugin, being too coupled into the core, but locking down 
versions is a bit of a different matter. Even then, I agree with what you've 
said, but it seems like archetype might be a worthy exception since it's the 
first thing many users hit and used regularly by established users, and it has 
bitten us before. Even today, Maven 3 regularly updates release versions of the 
plugin so as soon as something is in the wild it'll get picked up (this may be 
a bug though - I'll add that to JIRA).

I'm not that tied to the idea, it was just a thought to avoid the potential 
problem that had been raised by a user. I'd hoped to hear a few other opinions 
either way... if no one else speaks up in favour I'll just close the issue as 
'won't fix'.

- Brett

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