Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:
This means that if people have issues with the Ant POMs after 1.7.0 is out, IMHO they should create bug reports in bugzilla with a patch attached, and wait until the next release.
This would be unacceptable in most corporate environments.
If you can afford to depend on an online repository which is unreliable and uncontrolled as well as the release schedule of an opensource (or commercial) component which is unreliable and uncontrolled and hold on, that's fine, but that's far from the norm.
Just like bugs, you may perfectly end up in a situation where you need to patch (or workaround) your opensource/commercial component (even though the patch is submitted and applied) and run with it until the next release and/or use a custom snapshot. It does not have to be the norm (and I'm the very first one to fight against such practice which consist of patching everything just because it's opensource and you can do it) but this type of thing _will_ happen.
Especially when we are talking about a piece of text. -- stephane
