I've been working on some core stuff that I'd like to release once I
finish. I'd think a couple of weeks, give or take.

Kristian


2012/8/30 Mark Struberg <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>
>
> 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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