Re: Maven coordinates going forward

[Cédric Champeau]

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> Is this not the whole point of releasing versioned binaries?  It just
> means a couple of extra steps when I upgrade.  First, change the
> coordinates (group + version instead of just the version) and a quick
> refactor of my imports.  Every modern IDE makes this easy.
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> This is not much about direct dependencies, but about transitive
dependencies. Exclusions in Maven are horrible. You never want to exclude a
dependency. What you really want is to substitute it, so that it can belong
to the dependency resolution process.