Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Struberg
+1 since when is this 'deprectated'? 4 years? LieGrue, strub --- On Mon, 7/20/09, Jason van Zyl jvan...@sonatype.com wrote: From: Jason van Zyl jvan...@sonatype.com Subject: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x To: Maven Developers List dev@maven.apache.org Date: Monday, July

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-21 Thread Stephen Connolly
+1, just make sure that when you kill it, it ends up dead ;-) 2009/7/20 Jason van Zyl jvan...@sonatype.com Hi, Maven 2.x has been out for quite some number of years now, and I wanted to float the idea of stopping support for the legacy repository format in 3.x? There are tools now that can

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-21 Thread Arnaud HERITIER
+1 if we help java.net to throw the m1 repo they are always using. Arnaud On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: +1, just make sure that when you kill it, it ends up dead ;-) 2009/7/20 Jason van Zyl jvan...@sonatype.com Hi, Maven 2.x

Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread Jason van Zyl
Hi, Maven 2.x has been out for quite some number of years now, and I wanted to float the idea of stopping support for the legacy repository format in 3.x? There are tools now that can convert repository formats, and I believe all of the three popular repository managers support dynamic

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread nicolas de loof
Legacy layout is still used at http://download.java.net/maven/1/ by some project, including some standard Java API (activation, mail, persistence...) can we expect them to migrate to http://download.java.net/maven/2/ ? Maybe some evangelism / lobbying could help ;) A repo manager can safely

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread John Casey
+1 We've carried this format for several years now, and IMO it's widely understood to be deprecated. I think it's safe to say that most Maven users are on Maven 2.x by now, so leaving the legacy format in place doesn't have much value. Users who really still need this feature can always run

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 20-Jul-09, at 3:12 PM, nicolas de loof wrote: Legacy layout is still used at http://download.java.net/maven/1/ by some project, including some standard Java API (activation, mail, persistence...) can we expect them to migrate to http://download.java.net/maven/2/ ? Maybe some

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread Tamás Cservenák
+1 (non binding) biasedAnd also, some of MRMs are of great use on laptops too, due to their small memory footprints, and they are of great help with decoupling you from work to home schemes ;) /biased ~t~ On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jason van Zyl jvan...@sonatype.comwrote: On 20-Jul-09,

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread Brett Porter
Is this just to remove legacy support, or remove configurability of the layout altogether (say, if we wanted to introduce something different in the future?) - Brett On 21/07/2009, at 4:48 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: Hi, Maven 2.x has been out for quite some number of years now, and I

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 20-Jul-09, at 8:14 PM, Brett Porter wrote: Is this just to remove legacy support, or remove configurability of the layout altogether (say, if we wanted to introduce something different in the future?) Just the legacy support, not the pluggable mechanism itself. - Brett On

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread Brett Porter
On 21/07/2009, at 1:04 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 20-Jul-09, at 8:14 PM, Brett Porter wrote: Is this just to remove legacy support, or remove configurability of the layout altogether (say, if we wanted to introduce something different in the future?) Just the legacy support, not the

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread Brian Fox
+1. The sun repo was the only one that caused me concern (they do still publish some projects there) but this can be dealt with. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Brett Porterbr...@apache.org wrote: On 21/07/2009, at 1:04 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 20-Jul-09, at 8:14 PM, Brett Porter wrote:

Re: Stop support for legacy repository layout in 3.x

2009-07-20 Thread Barrie Treloar
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