I think the thinking was that let's leave this for backward compatibility, but given that SE5 has EOL-ed in 2009, I think it's OK to remove them.
IIUC, that means we start requiring Java6 and onward for building plugins, which seems reasonable to me. People who absolutely need to build with SE5 can still stick to the current version of maven-hpi-plugin.
(And I see some build issues with Java7 presumably due to those classes, and if removing them fixes that, it's all the better.)
On 07/19/2012 06:22 AM, Jesse Glick wrote:
This is deprecated, but is there any reason this (and hpi-apt role hint, and AnnotationProcessorFactoryImpl) still exist in plugin sources at all? Would anything break if they were just deleted?
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