On 17/01/2011, at 1:20 PM, Lee Thompson wrote: > On Sun, January 16, 2011 4:43:18 PM Brett wrote > I'll take that up with the maven list, but that's surprising given the first > two paragraphs here: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/201008.mbox/ > > As far as I know there are no guarantees about whether the Aether API will > remain stable across versions. Use it in your plugins at your own risk. > > Thanks for the link. I'd say none of the "maven-compat" APIs should have > been marked deprecated if the 2.1 API is preferential over the lower level > libraries like aether. ArtifactFactory and WagonManager throw you compile > warnings and the lower level APIs do not.
Yes, I'm also surprised to hear that, but I haven't had a closer look. I'm still using Maven 2 APIs and making plugins compatible with both. It's probably best hammered out on the maven dev list... - Brett -- Brett Porter br...@apache.org http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter
