Sounds useful to me. We were going to build a similar plugin - but the plan for it to be a sonar plugin rather than a maven plugin.
Jim On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Ben Lidgey <blid...@movenetworks.com>wrote: > > It sounds like it could be useful, but perhaps with a warning as there are > maintenance projects applying bug fixes to existing projects that may not > want to update older components to avoid too many changes. > > Ben > > > On 10/09/2009 22:03, "Wendy Smoak" <wsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A group I work with had a requirement to be able to deprecate and ban > old versions of their artifacts. The dev team is very large and > simply sending out an email telling everyone not to use version 1.0 of > some artifact won't work. The team needed a way to warn and/or > enforce that the old version is no longer supported and should not (or > must not) be used. > > I think they started out writing a rule for the Enforcer plugin, but > at some point it turned into a separate plugin. (There was a concern > about teams simply re-configuring the Enforcer plugin to get around > the rules.) > > In the repository, they have a versions-metadata.xml file sitting next > to the maven-metadata.xml file. The plugin examines all the > dependencies in the build and looks for the versions-metadata.xml > file to see if it needs to warn or fail. > > They're considering contributing the plugin and are wondering whether > it sounds useful to the general Maven community before they start > wading through the corporate legal stuff that would be necessary to > make that happen. > > Does it sound like something you might use? Let me know if you want > more details on it, or perhaps one of the devs that's involved will > chime in. > > Thanks, > -- > Wendy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > E-Mail : blid...@movenetworks.com > ______________________________________ > Move Networks UK > Enterprise House > Navigation Park > Abercynon > CF45 4SN > t: +44 (0)8445 460100 > f: +44 (0)8445 460200 / (0)1443 742 568 > w: www.movenetworks.com > >
