If you can create a drop-in replacement for the plexus-utils code go for it. I believe this exercise is of little value users and you run the real risk of introducing problems for no technical reason, but if you want to do the work that's your prerogative.
So much time was spent to preserve the existing signatures and behaviour in the container swap and this is not something to be taken lightly, and you should do what has been done in the past. I think the path to do this if you want to get rid of the plexus-utils reference is to reduce the foot print to the classes being used in the core and then drop in that reduced JAR. Create a replacement with the code you've copied, reimplemented, improved yet binary compatible and test that for a while. Binary compatible in all respects, package and signature. And from there then make any subsequent changes. I honestly am not overly concerned with plugins because they can be fixed relatively quickly, but doing low value changes in the core for swapping out one set of code for another is seriously playing with fire. If you initially are intending to change code in the core to accommodate this change I see no technical reason for it, is dangerous and I'm -1. On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:03 AM, Mark Struberg wrote: > While digging thru the plexus-utils usage I wonder whether we should place > the maven-utils in maven-core or maven-shared. > > maven-core doesn't yet have any maven-shared dependency it seems. Which means > if we like to use them in maven-core as well we should relocate > maven-shared-utils to the maven-3 core module. > > wdyt? > > LieGrue, > strub > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Kristian Rosenvold <kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> >> To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org> >> Cc: >> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:48 AM >> Subject: Re: Removing unused code from maven-shared-utils >> >> Well obviously given the current number of failing >> tests,maven-shared-utils is going nowhere right now ;) >> >> I will do a test-migration and remove unused code in >> org.apache.maven.shared.utils.io before we release. >> >> Kristian >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder & CTO, Sonatype Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people can fix bad ideas, but good ideas can't save bad people. -- Paul Graham
