On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > The only reason to do this from my PoV is if the plugin requires features > only available in Maven 3. > > There are still a significant number of users who use Maven 2.2.1, yeah I > would love to get them to jump up to 3.0.4, but I acknowledge that is > something that may be beyond their control. Forcing plugin dependencies up > without a valid driving requirement is just forcing unnecessary pain on the > end users. > > IMHO features should drive the upgrading of dependencies, nothing else. >
+1 There is little value in updating plugins to use Maven 3.x components for the sake of it. The reason we spent so much time making sure that 3.x runs older components was to ensure no one has to do this. > -Stephen > > On 30 July 2012 12:44, Stanislav Ochotnicky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I am wondering what is general feeling about updating maven plugins from >> depending on Maven 2.x artifacts to their Maven 3.x counterparts. >> >> I am aware not all m2 artifacts have equivalents in m3 (i.e. >> maven-project, maven-artifact-manager and few others). Things have moved >> around somewhat (i.e. few classes from maven-artifact moved to -core or >> -compat). >> >> However, if someone provided patches, with builds and unit tests working >> and all that jazz, would there be willingness to work on making this >> transition happen? Or is the time not right just yet? >> >> Note that we've been running maven-3.0.4 and ~60 maven plugins without >> maven-core,maven-artifact and quite few other 2.x artifacts, for about a >> year and everything works as far as we are concerned (limited use case >> of Fedora Linux apply of course) >> >> For the record full list of maven 2.x artifacts we still keep is: >> * maven-artifact-manager >> * maven-error-diagnostics >> * maven-model >> * maven-monitor >> * maven-plugin-descriptor >> * maven-plugin-registry >> * maven-profile >> * maven-project >> * maven-toolchain >> >> -- >> Stanislav Ochotnicky <[email protected]> >> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno >> >> PGP: 7B087241 >> Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder & CTO, Sonatype Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- We all have problems. How we deal with them is a measure of our worth. -- Unknown
