On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Since disclaimers are not part of the Apache License, they are no > > obligated to. All we are trying to do here is to not let our folks use > > a channel where it's not explicit. > > > > Even if all the other channels strip out all the incubator > > disclaimers, there's nothing we can do about it. and is perfectly > > legal. > > > > Am sure you know both of these...Not sure if you are trying to get me > > to say something else :) > > No sinister motives, I just wanted to make sure that we're on the same > page. :-) > > So assuming we agree on the above, let's go back to the Maven issue. > > Consider an Ant project A that bundles an incubating release as a > dependency in a lib directory that's included when you download the > sources of A. This should be OK as discussed above, and the end user > doesn't need to go through any extra steps to get the incubating > dependency. Project A may choose to warn the user about the incubating > dependency, but we don't mandate that. > > Then consider a Maven project B that declares a dependency to an > incubating release. Now, according to current policy, the end user > should explicitly allow incubating dependencies by adding special > configuration before he or she can build project B sources. > > Why should things be more complex for the users of project B? > It wouldn't. Project B would have the incubator repository included in its list. Or they could also have the released jar in their lib, Maven allows that, like most build systems I know. Matthieu > > I would better understand the objections against Maven distribution if > the same standards were applied to all kinds of downstream projects > and their users. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
