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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented on ARCHETYPE-495:
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What are our rules about incompatible API changes?
> rename ArchetypeGenerator.generateArchetype() to
> ProjectGenerator.generateProject()
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> Key: ARCHETYPE-495
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARCHETYPE-495
> Project: Maven Archetype
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Generator
> Affects Versions: 2.4
> Reporter: Herve Boutemy
> Assignee: Petar Tahchiev
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: backlog
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> {{ArchetypeGenerator.generateArchetype()}} is really misleading: it's not
> about generating an archetype, but about generating *a project from* an
> archetype
> this API cause strong confusion in the archetype lifecycle: sample project ->
> archetype project -> archetype artifact -> generated project
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