----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kristian Rosenvold" <kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> > To: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:42:21 PM > Subject: Re: Removing unused code from maven-shared-utils > > 2012/8/30 Jason van Zyl <ja...@tesla.io>: > > That is simply not true. Kristian works on plexus-utils all the > > time, has never been hindered in the slightest and makes changes > > to the code all the time. Kristian if this is untrue then please > > feel free to correct me. You may not like where the code is, but > > your argument that you cannot effectively work on it is utter > > nonsense. If you naturally followed this argument to all > > dependencies and that you can't effectively leverage any code > > unless it's at Apache which is really really viable in the > > long-term. > > I do it, but mostly out of necessity. This stuff makes us bitch & > quarrel and spend way to much energy on things that are neither fun > or > otherwise constructive; it's bad feng shui. > > So I say drop the stuff. Initially by replacing the trivial 90% with > the easy replacements, probably by doing class-by-class replacements > across the whole maven codebase. > > Now when it comes to core (and I suspect Xpp3Dom is one of the hard > cases) we need to be more careful of leaking/not leaking the right > things. But anyone who thinks we're going to be > free of plexus dependencies within the next X years simply has no > clue > of how many plexus modules there are out there. So we can clean up > some stuff and leave some of it; I say do the easy ones first. That > *will* probably leave most modules with BOTH plexus-utils and > maven-shared-utils as dependencies for quite some time. But heck, > we're good at downloading ;]
If it ends up downloading single version of each of them I'll organize a party :). Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team > > 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
