On 26 August 2010 12:42, Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com> wrote: > On 25/08/2010 7:13 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> Let me recap the pain scenario here: >> >> Existing poms reference commons-net under the old group ID. >> >> commons-net releases a new version under a new group ID. >> >> Dependencies under the old group ID won't be seen as 'the same thing' >> as the new group ID, so >> >> a project that references the new group ID and has a dependency that >> uses the old group ID gets both in the classpath, and probably >> experiences chaos until repaired with exclusions. > >> Unless maven grew a feature whereby the new artifact could explicitly >> declare itself a successor of the old one under the other name, this >> is unavoidable. Either don't rename or live with this as an annoyance >> to the users of the new version. Renaming packages might help, insofar >> as the two versions might then coexist happily. > > A way to deal with this is to do what we do at the application level and use > aggregate POMs to specify dependencies on third party software. > Once we shift to the new version with the new group id, we will have to add > an exclusion to each of our aggregation POMs to prevent third party packages > from pulling in the old group id.
But again, this is extra work for the user. I'll say it again - unless and until Maven can transparently handle such changes, getting the groupId etc correct in the first place is very important, especially for libraries. > > Ron > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
