Author: krosenvold
Date: Sun Dec 16 03:30:37 2012
New Revision: 1422461
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1422461&view=rev
Log:
o Addded 'why' to the site
Modified:
maven/shared/trunk/maven-shared-utils/src/site/apt/index.apt
Modified: maven/shared/trunk/maven-shared-utils/src/site/apt/index.apt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/shared/trunk/maven-shared-utils/src/site/apt/index.apt?rev=1422461&r1=1422460&r2=1422461&view=diff
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--- maven/shared/trunk/maven-shared-utils/src/site/apt/index.apt (original)
+++ maven/shared/trunk/maven-shared-utils/src/site/apt/index.apt Sun Dec 16
03:30:37 2012
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ Apache Maven Shared Utils
It is not a 100% API compatible replacement though but a replacement <with
improvements>:
lots of methods got cleaned up, generics got added and we dropped a lot of
unused code.
+Why ?
+
+ plexus-utils consisted mostly of code that was forked from various apache
projects. From a licensing
+ perspective this code became "unclean" when it was forked to codehaus.
maven-shared-utils is
+ based on the original from the apache sources.
+
+Why not commons ?
+ We would prefer code to use commons-* code where appropriate, but the
plexus-utils became
+ slightly incompatible (different) from the commons over the years, so
migrating is not
+ always a 1:1 operation. Migrating to maven-shared-utils is a 1:1 operation
in most cases.
Relation to Commons-*
