Because it is impossible to maintain it nowadays. Too much features (support for many eclipse distress with many extensions like WTP…), not enough tests and the impossibility to validate anything at the end because configuration files used by eclipse are evolving, not documented and there is no known solution to manage them nicely (as far it was impossible several years ago when I was maintaining it).
Also I suppose that now a large part of maven committers aren’t using eclipse or are using m2e which doesn’t give them the required experience to improve/maintain this plugin. That’s why moving it to MojoHaus will be a good thing because it will allow more people to contribute to it. About the fact that you need to add some settings in your POM because of m2e …. yes that’s not cool. But I’m using IDEA thus I don’t have useful feedback about it. It reminds that for all IDEs it is always a nightmare to correctly share IDE settings inside a team/project. Having some configuration about it in the pom doesn’t seem the worst idea... > On 08 Oct 2015, at 15:22, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for the top post, phone. > So are you saying that the way forward is to have junk in POM files for the > way each kind of IDE does its business? Tall about mixing model and view! > There is nothing wrong with eclipse:eclipse IMO but I have no spare cycles to > maintain it. I'm not sure why Maven wants to go out of its way to break it > though... > Gary > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Jochen Wiedmann <[email protected]> > Date: 10/07/2015 23:34 (GMT-08:00) > To: Maven Developers List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Retire Maven Eclipse Plugin / Donation to Mojohaus > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does m2e still want to pollute POMs withcryptic entries? > > There are alternative storage possibilities, but that > doesn't fix the inherited difficulties. Just mákes the > SCM purists happy (and forces other users to live with the same > trouble that you already fixed for yourself.) > > Jochen > > -- > The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!" > > http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/evolution-of-the-wheel-300x85.jpg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
