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 > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
