William,

That definitely seems like a major problem with HoloEverywhere and I 
wouldn't use it. But is he actually publishing artifacts that impact 
non-HoloEverywhere users? I'm not sure I understand the connection between 
his misconfiguration & Google's publishing strategy?

On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:41:31 AM UTC-4, William Ferguson wrote:
>
> What's the Android team's stance on the non-official versions of the 
> Android support libraries?
>
> Eg 
> https://github.com/Prototik/HoloEverywhere/issues/842#issuecomment-49746122
>
> These libraries have the same GAV (groupId, artifactId, version) as the 
> official versions but have totally different contents. This means that the 
> same project built on 2 different machines can produce radically different 
> outputs (unbeknownst to the developers). Or even 2 libraries both listing 
> the same dependency having very different needs and producing some 
> nightmare when combined (again unbeknownst to the developer doing the 
> combining).
>
> These libraries are being published in the com.android.* namespace, so 
> appear to be official Android team libraries which means developers are 
> going to start coming to you guys for support as things start to break down 
> at the edges.  If the Android team were actually publishing these artifacts 
> into a public repository there wouldn't be a vacuum for incidents like this 
> to occur.
>
> So what's the plan to stop this hole getting bigger and deeper?
>
> William
>
>
>
>

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