This sounds like a shade feature, yes. However, in order to automatically extract the version extra data and detect a version keyword like "alpha" may require some additional code, though maybe the shade plugin already supports that.
Alternatively, JUnit 5.x uses a tool called API Guardian for marking which APIs are stable or not: https://github.com/apiguardian-team/apiguardian On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 05:53, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello. > > Does someone see a practical way to automate package names > and source files conversions so that each all alpha/beta releases > can be used together (e.g. to compare their behaviours). > > I mean, for release version "1.0-alpha1", the top-level package > name "o.a.c.compid" would be turned into "o.a.c.compid.alpha1". > > This would also solve issues with compatibility checkers (with the > added bonus that JAR hell could never happen). > > Couldn't the "shade" plugin be put to use (so that all artefacts have > their top-level package transparently set to "o.a.c.compid.alpha1" > and all the tools operate on that)? > > > Regards, > Gilles > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org