Lets step back for a bit. Who exactly is asking for this change? Is there an issue with a huge number of votes attached to it? This is certainly relevant when asking for a change as fundamental as this. If a handful of people have issues with this, but everyone else is ok with platform default, then this is an important deciding factor.
Anything we do that causes behavior changes will have to wait until 2.1, we simply cannot allow this kind of change in 2.0.x. I would like to see the results of a user list poll before we go much futher. -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Bentmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:51 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: POM Element for Source File Encoding Hervé Boutemy wrote. > the proposal is here: > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/POM+Element+for+Source+File+Encoding Recently, we have received two comments from users on the wiki that are against the proposed default encoding of Latin-1 but would rather like it to stay as is, i.e. platform default encoding. I am aware that this a controversial issue, backward-compat on the hand, out-of-the-box build reproducibility on the other. Personally, I still believe that some progressions need to break with historical flaws but I also don't want to silently ignore the reported objections. In the end it might boil down to the democratic question what is the opinion of the majority. Therefore, I think it might be a good idea to simply run a vote for this on the user list, too. Would that be reasonable, other ideas? Benjamin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
