Where are they getting published? If there were put on MavenCentral or JCenter that would be a problem but it looks like they are just on github? Someone wanting to use them has to go find them there, and that should be a red flag anyway.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:41 AM, William Ferguson < [email protected]> 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. > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- 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.
