On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Paul Benedict wrote: > >> I think Maven POMs should be like the rules governing HTML and CSS >> versions. Ignore tags and attributes you don't know and interpret what >> you can. Allow graceful degration of behavior so those who want to >> publish 4.1 POMs can still be used with 4.0 readers. > > "Graceful degradation" doesn't work. 4.0 is strict. Maven 2.x won't handle > anything undefined. The only reasonable solution is that the new project > descriptor won't be a pom.xml. pom.xml will always be reserved for a 2.x > compatible POM.
Unless Maven 2 is given the ability *today* to be forward compatible, I agree, then it has no chance of being graceful. What a pity. I believe forward-compatibility would be a great thing and the 20(?) years of HTML specs would be valuable to learn from. Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
