You might point out how widely used POI is include Tika and Solr as consumers of POI/XMLBeans.
Also taking it out of the Attic was previously suggested by others... Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 28, 2018, at 12:41 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, pj.fanning wrote: >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/attic-general/201802.mbox/%3C1519744891.257410.1285160920.6801732D%40webmail.messagingengine.com%3E >> >> Looks like we're not going to make much progress on resurrecting Apache >> XMLBeans. > > The big problem is with Maven users: > * Anyone using Maven to depend on xmlbeans explicitly won't know to > switch to org.apache.poi:xmlbeans to get the fixes > * Maven won't know that the the old 2.6.0 release and our new fix are > the same thing, so will happy pull both in > > The smaller problem is by-hand-dependency users - the number of people on > stackoverflow or the mailing list who try combining old and new POI jars + > get stuck is rather high - so the chances of those people getting it right is > near zero > > As long as all existing XMLBeans unit tests pass, it should be safe > (+sensible) for existing xmlbeans users to upgrade to our fixed version. > > > Could someone help work up a good explanation of the jar-hell + maven issues, > so we can go back to the attic with a reason why we should be allowed to do > it? (My reading of the attic wasn't a flat-out no, just a "no unless you have > a good reason otherwise") > > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
