what I somehow would like to prevent is that we have 2 editable files lying around. That would end up in different people editing them independently which would never go in sync again.
LieGrue, strub --- On Wed, 5/25/11, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com> wrote: > From: Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com> > Subject: Re: POM 4+ was Re: Moving forward with mixins > To: dev@maven.apache.org > Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 7:04 AM > John Casey wrote: > > > > > > > On 5/24/11 8:25 AM, Brian Fox wrote: > >> 2011/5/24 Arnaud Héritier<aherit...@gmail.com>: > >>> Before talking about a specific change in the > model like the addition of > >>> mixins (which may be cool but not critical) > did we : > >>> - studied that we had everything necessary to > manage new versions of > >>> POMs with something a little bit dynamic > inside the core and all that is > >>> necessary on repositories side ? > >>> - studied if we couldn't start by really > simple issues that may already > >>> do a very useful 3.1 version like the addition > of global exclusions ? > >>> > >> > >> I didn't read the proposal in detail yet, but my > initial concern was > >> on pom compat as well. > > > > I think doing some sort of on-the-fly translation into > a 4.0.0 POM > > purely to be deployed for backwards compat would be > enough here...though > > we may want to explore how we could make Maven smart > enough to say, "I > > can't read this POM, use a later version" or > somesuch... > > Hmmm. And what about semantical compatibility? E.g. if a > newer pom version > declares global excludes, the resulting target might be > completely different > if you build with an older Maven version. This might even > be the case if one > of the dependencies is using a newer POM only. I just want > to emphasis that > such a change is not of technical nature only. > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
