I confess I don't understand why this is suggested. I see no downside to releasing on Maven Central and a lot of upside. Perhaps there's a reason not to do this, but until that's made clear, I'm a strong -1 on this proposal.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 1:47 AM 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 -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-dev-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: j-dev-h...@xerces.apache.org
