Brian E. Fox wrote:
Is a warning really needed? Perhaps just an INFO that says "using platform default encoding: [value]". Again going under the theory that someone that needs to worry about the encoding will be looking for it, shoving a warning in everyone's face that doesn't care isn't a great choice.
OK, if we wanted, we could just start another poll for this, seems to have enough controversial spirit ;-) This idea with the warning was also proposed by two or three users on the list, especially Hervé put it nicely [0]. I took this happily up because I (still) believe that having builds out there which implicitly rely on the platform encoding and as such just break with the ideals of platform-independence and build reproducibility is nothing that should be promoted, not in general and in particular not by Maven. And I consider silent acceptance as a mild form of promotion. I mean the important difference between a warning and an info is that you at least express that something is not quite right, it may work but should be reviewed. Compare the following [INFO] Compling 42 source files [INFO] Using platform default encoding UTF-8 with [INFO] Compling 42 source files [WARNING] Using platform default encoding UTF-8, build is not fully reproducible, please verify its output, yadayada Somebody who is not aware of the encoding issue will be absolutely happy with the first output whereas a reader of the later output will start to wonder "What is this damn warning all about?". Answering his question will hopefully lead him to the insight that he wants to specify an encoding, to follow best practices. Last but not least, having this warning everywhere will bring me into a good position when re-asking what the agreed encoding for the Maven sources themselves is ;-) I promise, this will be my last passionate mail about encoding. Just have the PMC say one word and it's going to become true. Benjamin [0] http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--POLL--Default-Value-for-File-Encoding-p16968718.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
