oh there's a 3rd option that I even like more
3) make new releases in new groupid, no relocations at all
+ easiest ;)
+ users trying to upgrade will need to know that the groupId has
changed and act by themselves, so they will be involved, and in case
of classpath problems they will know what has changed
- it'd be better to wait until a major/minor release so users can get
bugfixes easily
On 2/13/07, Carlos Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
you can change the old poms to relocate to a new location as long as
the new location has the same old jars and poms (just groupId change).
IIRC your case was different.
So, I' see two options for relocation:
1) when new version is out with new groupId add relocation pom in old
location just for that new version.
+ Users updating version in old location will get a warning
+ easy to do
- users may end having old versions and new versions in the
classpath, that they would have to solve with exclusions
2) relocate all versions to new groupId
+ all users will only notice the warnings when using old group
+ no classpath problems in builds from scratch
- harder to implement, will need to write some code
- people with commons artifacts cached (almost everybody) will
experience same problems as in 1, possibly getting two versions in the
classpath
I'd stick with 1) changing old releases scares me ;) and still doesn't
guarantee trouble free upgrades
On 2/13/07, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you cannot change the old POMs anymore, in that case this description is
obsolete. The only valid option is to use the new groupId with a new release and
provide for this new release a relocation POM at the former location. This was
Carlos' advice after a two week hassle to do such a transition with XStream.
>
> - Jörg
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