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Archimedes Trajano commented on MNG-3952:
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I guess I can try to deprecate using the above mechanism my
net.trajano.project:java-project since I don't think anyone should use it
anymore and see what happens.
> Create Deprecation Mechanism for Maven Artifacts
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>
> Key: MNG-3952
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3952
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Artifacts and Repositories, General
> Affects Versions: 2.0.9
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Immo Huneke
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> An example of the sort of problem that developers currently encounter can be
> seen at
> http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2008/12/using-jpa-and-hibernate-with-maven.html. I
> have encountered similar problems in the past, e.g. trying to decide which
> version of a plugin is the current one or being unaware that an artifact I
> was using in a build had been superseded by another with a different groupId
> and artifactId.
> I feel that Maven lacks a deprecation mechanism that would make it obvious to
> everyone that they're using something out of date. The problem is that once
> an artifact (other than a snapshot) has been published, it is never supposed
> to change thereafter. But it shouldn't be impossible to devise a mechanism
> for adding deprecation and redirection to the associated metadata. It would
> then be possible for the dependency resolver to display a warning whenever a
> deprecated artifact was used in a build, either as a plugin or as a library.
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