----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Struberg" <[email protected]> > To: "Maven Dev" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:55:13 AM > Subject: Any maven-shared or maven-core release pending? > > Hi folks! > > Is there any maven-core or maven-shared release pending? > I'd like to start with moving all maven stuff from plexus-utils to > maven-shared-utils. > > The reason is simple: > 1.) It always got argued that we cannot just replace plexus-utils > because we don't know how many plugins are using it. And people > feared about side effects which could harm stability. > As we do this now in a whole new module with a new package name we > can really easily upgrade that stuff to proper 2012 style and don't > need to keep em 2005ish anymore ;) > > 2.) For implementing the incremental build stuff I need a few classes > extended, and the only way we can guarantee this to be reliably > available is to host this stuff in maven itself (where it was > originally hosted btw - 80% of the plexus utils code is a fork of > old ant/jakarta/commons stuff). And since the codehaus repo got > closed down silently I have no confidence in that stuff anymore. > Can we hope that stuff that belongs to Apache commons will be used from there or contributed back instead of growing yet another utility library that duplicates commons-[io|lang|codec|beanutils|..]? Java land is already full of such util libraries serving same purposes but with different problems and bugs, so let's try to not do it again.
Regards, Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse Team > > I locally already upgraded a few maven-shared libs without any > problems. I think we can get this done in 1 week + another week of > cleaning up the obsolete code as Kristian proposed in the other > mail. > > Wdyt? When may I start with the transition? > > LieGrue, > strub > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
