Re: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-06 Thread Brett Porter
a new, incompatible version of the plexus container -Original Message- From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:28 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Being careful with backward compat I can't find or recall this - do you have a log/date? - B

Re: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-06 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 4 Mar 07, at 11:21 PM 4 Mar 07, Jerome Lacoste wrote: On 3/4/07, Kenney Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: > > On 3 Mar 07, at 4:57 PM 3 Mar 07, Arnaud HERITIER wrote: > >> Jason, >> >> Couldn't we enforce the usage of something like jdiff to check if >> there's >>

RE: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-06 Thread Brian E. Fox
; compilation > error, but I discussed with Brett on IRC. > > > -Original Message- > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 5:31 PM > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: Being careful with backward compat > > > On 3

Re: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-05 Thread Brett Porter
ett on IRC. -Original Message- From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 5:31 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Being careful with backward compat On 3 Mar 07, at 4:57 PM 3 Mar 07, Arnaud HERITIER wrote: Jason, Couldn't we enfor

RE: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-05 Thread Brian E. Fox
31 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Being careful with backward compat On 3 Mar 07, at 4:57 PM 3 Mar 07, Arnaud HERITIER wrote: > Jason, > > Couldn't we enforce the usage of something like jdiff to check if > there's an incompatibility between releases. Yup, we

Re: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-04 Thread Jerome Lacoste
On 3/4/07, Kenney Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: > > On 3 Mar 07, at 4:57 PM 3 Mar 07, Arnaud HERITIER wrote: > >> Jason, >> >> Couldn't we enforce the usage of something like jdiff to check if >> there's >> an incompatibility between releases. > > Yup, we could use

Re: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-04 Thread Kenney Westerhof
Jason van Zyl wrote: On 3 Mar 07, at 4:57 PM 3 Mar 07, Arnaud HERITIER wrote: Jason, Couldn't we enforce the usage of something like jdiff to check if there's an incompatibility between releases. Yup, we could use that or Clirr as Vincent suggested. That's one part of the answer. The

Re: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-03 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 3 Mar 07, at 4:57 PM 3 Mar 07, Arnaud HERITIER wrote: Jason, Couldn't we enforce the usage of something like jdiff to check if there's an incompatibility between releases. Yup, we could use that or Clirr as Vincent suggested. That's one part of the answer. The separate integration t

Re: Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-03 Thread Arnaud HERITIER
Jason, Couldn't we enforce the usage of something like jdiff to check if there's an incompatibility between releases. It something that we already had (incompatibility of m1 plugins with m1.0.x whereas m1.1 isn't released) and which is really damaging for our community. Arnaud On 3/3/07, Jaso

Being careful with backward compat

2007-03-03 Thread Jason van Zyl
Hi, The current release of the Surefire plugin is a bit a nightmare with respect to backward compatibility. The problem is incompatible changes made to plexus-utils. The most current release will work with 2.0.5 because it still uses plexus-utils 1.1 but with the upgraded plexus-utils in