Responding out of order, techincal stuff first...
Daniel Kulp wrote:
The fact is MSHADE-9 is not something we can fix in maven-shade-plugin.
It's a bug in ASM and isn't fixable until they provide a fix. (unless
someone wants to jump into ASM code. I don't have the time.)
I'm not saying MSHADE-9 is easy to fix, but that claim assumes we're using
ASM correctly, which seems like a pretty bold assumption to me; ASM is
notoriously finicky. If anything's likely to be wrong, it's probably us!
Since they haven't provided a new version into the repos in almost a
year, I'm not going to hold my breath for a fix.
Version 3.1 of ASM came out in October. ASM is very much a live project.
I'd say it's at least worth trying the latest version of ASM.
IMO, we shouldn't let that hold up moving forward with getting this
plugin in shape for the many people and projects that don't need that
fixed.
I agree we should do a release now. But I do think it matters what we
call it.
I'd prefer to not get into "version number" arguments as it really just
doesn't matter.
<rant>
I disagree that version numbers don't matter, though it's obviously a
seductive argument. (It's just a number, right?)
But bugs certainly do matter when they get released (or, at least, we have
to behave as if they do or we'll release crappy software).
But all we do when we make a "release" is slap a version number/name on
something. If version numbers don't matter, then it doesn't matter what
bugs we fix before we change version numbers, i.e. it doesn't matter what
bugs we fix before we release.
Since bugs and releases matter, version numbers matter just as much as
that.
Of course, if bugs don't matter, then sure, it doesn't matter whether we
call our buggy software 1.0 or 2008 Business Edition. ;-) Specifically,
if MSHADE-9 doesn't matter at all, well, it's the only "Blocker" bug filed
against the shade plugin right now, so I guess we *SHOULD* release 1.0...
none of the other bugs matter as much as that one, right? :-)
</rant>
-Dan
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