Marquis Wang created MENFORCER-325:
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Summary: Add binary compatibility check to dependencyConvergence
rule
Key: MENFORCER-325
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MENFORCER-325
Project: Maven Enforcer Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Marquis Wang
The dependencyConvergence rule is too strict to use in practice most of the
time. If you have a project with even a medium number of dependencies, they are
pretty much guaranteed to have transitive dependencies that do not converge.
For some very common dependencies like Guava, the maintainers of the project
are very careful to maintain binary compatibility with new releases. For these
dependencies, a dependency divergence is okay if the included node is binary
compatible with all of the diverging nodes.
For example, if you have two dependencies, one if which depends on Guava 27 and
the other depends on Guava 26, you can safely run with Guava 27 because you
know that it is compatible with 26.
It would be really helpful if the dependencyConvergence rule were able to check
for binary compatibility and take it into account.
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