I personally think deprecating/retiring the eclipse plugin is a bit premature. Looking at the svn log, there have been a buunch of commits and a release this year, so there definitely are people that are "supporting" it.
Maybe if m2eclipse was actually usable for any of the projects I work on I might think differently, but it isn't. It's used a lot, it's at least somewhat supported here, and no viable alternative exists. Doesn't sound like deprecation material to me. Dan On Monday 01 November 2010 10:04:14 am Arnaud Héritier wrote: > For the eclipse plugin, I think that just moving it to retired isn't a good > think because even if we are agree that this one is now really difficult > to maintain, this is always the preferred integration way with eclipse in > many corporate environments. Thus we cannot just say to our community that > we just stop to maintain it. We have to propose something else. > m2eclipse or Q4E are the best choices for now but they don't cover all what > eclipse:eclipse can do and they have always some performances/stabilities > issues with large projects. Everybody can fork eclipse:eclipse plugin (and > many teams already did it) but I think we should provide a solution for > them to try to share their changes. > > How will we communicate around these changes ? > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > I started moving any of the ones discussed here: > > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/retired/ > > > > If anyone disagrees we can move them back but I think the ones suggest so > > far are good candidates. > > > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> Following up from a discussion on the user list. I think it's time to be > >> realistic about providing a healthy level of support for plugins here. > >> I think it makes more sense to reduce the foot print of plugins we say > >> we support and do those well as opposed to housing many plugin that > >> just don't get much love. I would ask people to think about the plugins > >> we're housing that we shouldn't. Probably a thread per plugin would be > >> fine for discussion. > >> > >> To that end the plugins I'll send the first thread. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Jason > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------- > >> Jason van Zyl > >> Founder, Apache Maven > >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > >> --------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track > >> of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget > >> the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful > >> groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a > >> clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as > >> signs of decline and decay. > >> > >> -- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Jason van Zyl > > Founder, Apache Maven > > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational > > and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. > > > > -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org -- Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org http://dankulp.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
