+1 Thanks for bringing this up
Enrico Il giorno dom 13 mar 2022 alle ore 20:58 Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
