On 23 August 2010 16:07, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote: > The relocation poms will help prevent collisions of different > versions,
"Help prevent collisions" - is the collision detection the same, or is it weakened by the change of groupId? i.e. suppose one releases Net 2.2 as groupId org.apache.commons, would the collision detection work the same as if Net 2.2 had stayed with groupId commons-net? > but eventually the users would want to update to the new > groupId. That's to be expected and acceptable - it is an optional step. > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:20 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Apache Commons NET currently uses the groupId commons-net. However, it >> should really use the groupId org.apache.commons. >> >> Is it possible to set up the Maven repos so that this change is >> transparent to users? >> >> Or does changing a groupId necessarily involve change for end-users? >> >> == >> >> AIUI, a redirect pom can be created, which will cause references to >> commons-net to be seen as org.apache.commons, at least when >> downloading. >> >> For example: >> NET 2.0 groupId = commons-net >> Create NET 2.x with groupId org.apache.commons >> >> Then a project that references commons-net:commons-net:2.x will >> download org.apache.commons:commons-net:2.x >> (though there will be a warning logged) >> >> [For example, see JDom 1.1, which changed groupId jdom => org.jdom] >> >> However, what happens if a project has (transitive) dependencies on >> both versions of Net? >> Does Maven know how to resolve these correctly so that only the 2.x >> release of Net is used? >> >> Or is it necessary to change the Net package name in order to avoid conflict? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
