Changing artifact and group ID but leaving package names the same is a
recipe for classpath conflicts and broken builds:

https://jlbp.dev/JLBP-6
https://jlbp.dev/JLBP-19

If you change the artifact ID, change package names too. There's no
such thing as a drop-in replacement with a different ID.


On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 7:27 AM Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> plexus-sec-dispatcher is a really widely used dependency, is used in maven
> itself, but also in many shared components and plugins (nb: there are even
> some org.sonatype.plexus:plexus-sec-dispatcher among shared deps!).
>
> Given this module is really maven specific, I see no reason to keep it
> "outside" (in codehaus-plexus org), as I am really unaware of anything else
> using it. Moreover, the module has a single dependency on plexus-cipher.
> Both projects are just a handful of classes.
>
> So, my proposal:
> * create maven-sec-dispatcher project (among maven-shared-components)
> * collapse the two projects (both has handful of classes,
> plexus-sec-dispatcher and plexus-cipher) in there
> * org.apache.maven.shared:maven-sec-dispatcher becomes a "drop in"
> replacement for org.plexus/org.sonatype.plexus:plexus-sec-dispatcher.
> * bonus, this cuts (transitive) dependencies by one as well
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> T



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