On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Karl Heinz Marbaise <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have a question concerning the plexus-utils/maven-shared-utils. During
> the investigation of a bug in appassembler-plugin (
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAPPASM-187). I have seen that in
> plexus-utils (3.0.7) the method FileUtils.copyDirectory() seemed to be not
> working. The same as in maven-shared-utils. After checking
> maven-shared-utils (0.1) i have detected that the unit tests which are
> checking the copyDirectory part a currently set to @Ignore.
>
> I have found a solution in using commons-io package (2.4) but this would
> result in a JDK 1.5+ dependency (Does someone know a version of commons-io
> which works with JDK 1.4+?


Commons IO 2.4 requires Java 6
Commons IO 2.0 requires Java 5
Commons IO 1.4 requires Java 1.3

Gary


> . The other question is why we don't use commons-io directly (apart of the
> optional dependency in maven-shared-utils) instead of rewriting things in
> maven-shared-utils or did i misunderstand the intention of
> maven-shared-utils?
>
> Are there any particular reasons not to to use commons-io package directly
> (as a dependency for a plugin)?
>
> Can someone enlighten me a little bit?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards
> Karl-Heinz Marbaise
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