yes, that is exactly the goal. E.g. instead of imlementing our own Base64 stuff 
we will either shade in parts or delegate over to commons-io.

After the initial switch from p-u to m-s-u we will review all code and make a 
major upgrade and drop obsolete parts.

LieGrue,
strub




----- Original Message -----
> From: Aleksandar Kurtakov <[email protected]>
> To: Maven Developers List <[email protected]>; Mark Struberg 
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Any maven-shared or maven-core release pending?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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
>> 
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