Not releasing on Maven central only creates an impediment to pick up the jar files. I really don't think we should make it harder for users.
Gary Gary On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 20:47 Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > I've a bit of a further suggestion, that its probably not appropriate > to release future Xerces-J binaries on Maven central [1], but to be > released only on the xerces.apache.org site. > > The reasoning for this [1] could be that, the JDK itself has numerous > Xerces-J derived Java classes (albeit, they're prefixed with com.sun.*). > Since we're maintaining Java components that JDK itself uses, its better > not to release on Maven central. > > Yes, but supporting a higher JDK version (1.7/1.8 to start with) at our > build time, is definitely needed I believe. > > > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi >
