What do all the various package managers install? I'm pretty sure I've seen one lately whose default was 3.3.1. Debian perhaps?
I think before we make any such move it would make sense to audit what people who don't manually install Maven are likely to have. First we should raise all those to 3.5.4 or later. Then we can upgrade the minimum version. Even more ambitiously, perhaps we should rethink how maven is installed. Why should it come from anywhere but Maven Central, and why can't a pom.xml specify the version of Maven itself? All we really should install is a very simple bootstrap script. But that's probably a discussion for another day. Let's get the package managers straightened out first. On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 11:48 AM Michael Osipov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks, > > as you might now we are dragging old luggage over and over with every > new year. We are making (little) progress with cleansing, skimming and > updating of our components. > > I'll will make a radical proposal I have already discussed privately > with other fellow committers over Slack: > Raise the entire baseline to Maven 3.5.4, all of our raises have been > intermediaries. Reasoning: > * Maven 3.5.4 is almost 4 old, it is settled > * Everything before we shouls consider ancient, if you haven't moved > yet, you will not and it will be your problem. > * It is the first version which uses Maven Resolver [1] > * It will free resources to test with previous releases which most don't > do anyway > * Maybe this will make it even easier to migrate to the upcoming Maven > Core API > > WDYT? > > Michael > > PS: I don't even mind 3.6.3 personally, thought I don't this benefit. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Maven+Ecosystem+Cleanup#MavenEcosystemCleanup-ResolverandMaven > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
