+1 and Happy New Year to everyone :) T
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 2:42 PM Slawomir Jaranowski <s.jaranow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Last year we mark all Maven versions 3.6.x and older as EOL [1] > > But we still try to support minimal API version for Core Maven Plugins as > 3.2.5 > > I would like to propose to sich it for at least to 3.6.3 > > Reasonable reasons: (for me) > - for standard CI build we use Maven 3.6.3 and newer > - many of external plugins, like MojoHaus are switched to 3.6.3 > - we have a hacks in code to try support old version in plugin, like > in: EnhancedPluginDescriptorBuilder in plugin-tools [2], we can cleanup > such code > - I don't believe to someone want to do more fixes for EOL Maven version in > plugins - so we should be a honest for users > - and we should go forward > > [1] https://maven.apache.org/docs/history.html > [2] > > https://github.com/apache/maven-plugin-tools/blob/master/maven-plugin-report-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/plugin/descriptor/EnhancedPluginDescriptorBuilder.java > > -- > Sławomir Jaranowski >
