FYI, I would like to proceed with steps 1+2.

Milos


On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Milos Kleint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I would like to integrate the toolchains proposal into current trunk.
>  http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Toolchains
>  There are multiple steps towards the final goal.
>
>  1. move the internal components from shared/ to components/ and make
>  it part of default core distribution. It shall be part of both
>  2.1-SNAPSHOT (trunk) and 2.0.9-SNAPSHOT (maven-2.0.x branch).
>  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/shared/trunk/maven-toolchain
>  The migration includes change of groupid.
>
>  2. perform a 1.0 release of the components. After that release, switch
>  to regular versioning (thus 2.1-SNAPSHOT and 2.0.9-SNAPSHOT).
>  This is necessary for plugin developers. See Backward Compatibility
>  section in the Toolchains document.
>    "Any plugins using the toolchains components don't need to
>  explicitly set the maven prerequite to 2.0.9-SNAPSHOT. The components
>  will work but will fail to deliver a configured toolchain, thus they
>  will keep behaving the same way as they did before. That's critical
>  for further development of plugins."
>
>  3. merge changes to javadoc, surefire and compiler plugins into their
>  trunk versions. Start work on adapting other plugins as well.
>
>  4. when maven 3.0.9 gets out of the door, release first version of the
>  maven-toolchains-plugin. Ideally all major plugins will get a new
>  version out with support for toolchains by that time or we release
>  them simultaneously. This is the big rollout for toolchains. all
>  documentation etc. needs to be uptodate at this point.
>
>  Regards
>
>  Milos
>

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