I think it's a good idea. The risk is it delays 2.0.8 a little longer, but the benefit of getting there sooner and being compatible with the changes in 2.1 shouldn't be underestimated.
-----Original Message----- From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:41 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Using Maven Artifact in 2.0.x Hi, How do people feel about trying to use maven-artifact in 2.0.x? The code has not changed, and backward compatibility will be maintained, and from Mark's trials it appears to work. Is this correct Mark? The ITs run using the decoupled version? The question is what are the criteria to decide if this is viable? 1) All plugins using the old artifacts must work (we need those smoke test projects in plugins) 2) Code must be binary compatible (easy to check with clirr) The only thing I can see as a problem right now is if people directly depend on maven-artifact-manager (would you guess that's the api?) then without a modification for the request of that would cause a problem. This needs to be fixed in 2.1 as well and I was just going to flip any requests for org.apache.maven:maven-artifact org.apache.maven:maven-artifact-manager org.apache.maven:maven-repository-metadata into a request for org.apache.maven.artifact:maven-artifact which containers everything required. A little artifact filter would do the trick. We are going to have to maintain backward compat in maven-artifact for a long time anyway because of plugins using it directly. We are going to have to support 2.0.x for a long time and having to maintain divergent copies of maven-artifact will very much suck ass. Maven 2.0.x is going to be used for a long time, and that's fine, but the easier to maintain the better. Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven jason at sonatype dot com ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
