Hi everybody, from a corporate user's point of view, I believe, the following points are important:
1. Corporate users want to be completely decoupled from what's happening on repo1. Many even don't want to proxy repo1 but instead manage their own repository. This is especially true for build artifacts (but it is also desirable for Maven plugins which currently would be a pain). 2. Many users don't want to make a distinction between Maven itself and the Maven core plugins (compile, jar, ...). Currently, when downloading the Maven distribution, it is in a way uncomplete as even the core plugins are missing. In contrast, if you download Ant, for example, you get all core ant tasks. Yes, it it possible to download other tasks from elsewhere, but what you get out-of-the-box contains the most important things. The same if you download the Eclipse SDK. It is not just the Eclipse runtime but instead a bundle of the runtime and plugins. It is good to be able to use new plugins by just declaring them (as long as you have a connection to repo1), but the Maven core plugins should be usable out-of-the-box, without a connection to repo1. 3. Many corporate users prefer to wait for stable releases instead of using beta versions. When using a stable Maven release, say 2.0.6, you should get latest stable (!) versions of Maven plugins. For example, you do not want to use maven-assembly-plugin 2.2-beta1 just because it has been uploaded to ibiblio. But: You want it out-of-the-box. The last thing that newbies want is to be forced to manually find out the latest version numbers and declare them. To adress these issues, may I suggest the following: - Build Maven distributions that include a super POM that declares the latest stable(!) version of all core Maven plugins (i.e. the plugins hosted on maven.apache.org). - Provide a downloadable distribution that is completely independent of repo1, i.e. a distribution that contains all Maven core plugins (in form of a pre-filled local repository, for example) in the latest stable version Regards - Arne -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Remove-auto-resolution-of-plugin-versions-from-Maven-2.1-tf3560617s177.html#a9975501 Sent from the Maven Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
