IMO these are all changes that should go into beta-1. The coupling with
maven/plexus has always been a major frustration, the sooner this is
removed, the better. The logging API was only added in beta-1, so if you
are going to dump it anyway, do it now. I don't know what your plans are
with book and maven-plugin but I do hope they will survive somewhere,
just not in the core?
In any case, I am concerned that the doxia development is getting more
and more away from what is currently used be maven (ie the alpha
branch), maybe we should think about releasing alpha-11 as 1.0 final and
move on with doxia 1.1 or 2.0? Opinions?
-Lukas
Jason van Zyl wrote:
Hi,
Just letting folks know that I've taken what's in trunk and I've been
chopping it apart for a couple weeks:
- removing plexus as a requirement
- dumped the doxia-book module -- it doesn't belong in the core
- dumped the doxia-maven-plugin module -- it doesn't belong in the core
- dumped the doxia-logging-api -- I don't know who did this but it's
just a bad idea
- i combined the parser and sink apis. they are never used apart in
practice, the separate attempt failed inside maven
My ultimate goal is to extract the dependency on doxia out of Maven's
core. What's happened is a terrible coupling. The plugin manager is
bound to doxia because of reports which essentially look like plugins
and ultimately it should just be another system that is pulled in as a
set of components. That release of maven and doxia are coupled needs to
be removed for Maven 2.1. I am personally interested in creating a data
driven API for reporting, not a document driven API. No one needs to
use what I'm making, but at the very least I will remove the dependency
on Doxia from Maven's core. I'll probably put this somewhere in the
next few weeks to show people, I just started one day a few weeks ago
and I just ended up where I am now. Not saying anyone has to use what
I'm making just giving folks a heads up.
Thanks,
Jason
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Jason van Zyl
Founder, Apache Maven
jason at sonatype dot com
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
-- Shakespeare
