Guys, you rock!
I also like to add my thanks to Stephen as he started the
plexus-utils-commons-bridge over in our sandbox. Without this work we
would
not have been able to do this so fast. Also a thanks to all guys who
helped
importing the stuff they wrote into this module.
LieGrue,
strub
----- Original Message -----
> From: Kristian Rosenvold <kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com>
> To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 8:37 AM
> Subject: Re: status update maven-shared-utils
>
> I have been running m-s-u with the entire maven codebase loaded,
basically
> analyzing all usages
> and deleting any code from m-s-u that is unused in maven. In a couple
of
> cases I have also
> modified maven code to use commons code directly so we can avoid some
code
> in m-s-u.
>
> We discussed this on IRC and those of us present figured it would be a
good
> idea to
> keep m-s-u at a minimum and *not* use this as a playground for adding
all
> sorts of
> other nifty features we might feel like adding, both now and in the
future.
> (I know this *sounds*
> so good, but it also sounds like wishful thinking ;) I also think it's
> desirable that m-s-u *NOT*
> support any use cases outside maven ;)
>
> I have in practice migrated "most" of the maven codebase to use m-s-u,
> and
> what remains is basically Xpp3Dom and its close "friends". (So while
> everything in
> org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml is deprecated, that's really only
because we
> don't have
> Xpp3Dom yet)
>
> I only have a few things left before I'm "1.0" ready:
> A) Finish analyzing all the usages so I can trim m-s-u further down.
We
can
> always reinstate code if I delete too much ;)
> B) Make plugin it's run with m-s-u (decent progress has been made
here,
> more or less finished)
> C) I am also considering just doing a clean reimplementation of
Xpp3Dom
and
> its companions, realistically it's not that
> many lines of code. Unsure if that is "1.0" material.
>
> Kristian
>
>
> 2012/10/14 Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mark, Kristian and I have made some good progress on the Maven
Shared
>> Utils.
>>
>> The project has now 2 compile-scoped dependencies: commons-io-2.2
(final
>> 1.5 compatible version) and jsr305-2.0.1 (for the support of
@Nonnull
and
>> @Nullable)
>> Since we still think that Maven Shared Utils should not have any
>> dependencies, the commons-io is shaded.
>>
>> ReaderFactory and WriterFactory now return a Reader or Writer, the
method
>> decides which implementation is used. Right now that is commons-io
>>
>> CollectionUtils has been removed, since there is a very small usage
of
it.
>> With generics this class has become useless.
>>
>> ExceptionUtils is nominated to be removed, since almost every
Exception in
>> JDK5 can chain exceptions. For the few left we're looking if it is
> worth
>> to keep it here or let does project depend on the original
plexus-utils
>> (different
>> package, so no class-collision)
>>
>> The whole org.apache.maven.shared.utils.**xml package is nominated
to
be
>> removed as well, since all its classes are deprecated.
>>
>> We're making heavy usage of generics, varArgs and other JDK5
specific
>> features.
>>
>> My opinion is that we need to remove all deprecated code, solve all
TODO
>> comments before its first release.(the number of todo's is very
small,6
> in
>> main and 1 in test, and have either to do with method signatures or
with
>> <=jdk1.4 issues.)
>> The reason is simple: with a new package this is the best moment to
get
>> rid of some legacy code from the old plexus-utils which had to stay
>> backwards compatible.
>>
>> If you think there are other classes/methods which need to be
discussed,
>> please let us know.
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
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