I agree with Guillaume. This is just an alias with a deprecation warning or a plain rename. Either way would be OK with me.
Gary On Tue, Aug 13, 2024, 5:49 PM Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> wrote: > Le mar. 13 août 2024 à 23:43, Elliotte Rusty Harold > <elh...@ibiblio.org> a écrit : > > > > I agree this is a problem. Not the first time that a new Java language > > feature has caused problems for much existing code. Who else remembers > > that JUnit's assertTrue used to be simply assert? That was an ugly > > one. > > > > In this case, I'm not yet sold that the cure isn't worse than the > > disease. In particular I'm not sure a change in the pom format is > > justified. There's too much existing code, documentation, tooling, > > and, most importantly, knowledge inside developers' heads to make > > this change pain free. If we were starting from a green field, then > > this would certainly make sense, but since we're not I think there'll > > be less pain by sticking with the status quo. > > I think there are already a bunch of changes in the coming 4.1.0 POM > which external tools are not yet ready to handle. The whole > raw->build transformation provides a few things which are definitely > not supported by any tool. > As you see with https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1651, all ITs > still work unchanged, so this would give ample time for tools to adapt > as I don't expect a massive and immediate switch to the new features > provided by 4.1.0 POM. > If we don't take the opportunity that is given now, not sure if there > will be another one. > > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 8:14 AM Martin Desruisseaux > > <martin.desruisse...@geomatys.com> wrote: > > > > > > In order to avoid confusion between "Maven module" and "Java module", I > > > suggest to update documentation for using "Maven sub-project" instead > of > > > "Maven module". However, the <module> XML elements in the POM would be > > > unchanged for compatibility reason. There is apparently not so many > > > places in the documentation that need to be updated. The ones that I > > > found are part of pull request #1625: > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1625/commits/4bc46b4114396e6025645f3c5dae888f3d386981 > > > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > > -- > > Elliotte Rusty Harold > > elh...@ibiblio.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
