in fairness i think i wrote most of the docs. Kohsuke's original docs were less than minimal. most of the docs were written while on public transport on a shitty little netbook.
i don't currently have the time to prettify the docs further, and when i have time i want to sort out the versions-maven-plugin integration tests so that i can roll releases with new features safely - Stephen --- Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense words and other nonsense are a direct result of using swype to type on the screen On 9 Oct 2011 23:14, "Benson Margulies" <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you have to support 1.5, the easiest thing to do is eschew the use > of 1.6 features. Just set the compiler plugin options for source and > target of 1.5. > > After you do that, you might still want the sniffer, since this does > not stop you from accidentally coding calls to methods introduced in > 1.6. > > If you really need 1.6 features, you might consider looking at > retroweaver, which can convert 1.6 jars into 1.5 jars. *However*, once > you start having two versions of a jar floating around (one for 1.5, > one for 1.6), Maven is not really terribly helpful. This is not a > use-case, apparently, that was anywhere near the front of the > collective Maven mind when the dependency model was designed. > > As for the comprehensibility of the AS docs, well, KK is one of the > smartest, nicest, guys pumping out useful stuff for the rest of us. > However, the doc he writes is the doc he writes. Or, for another > perspective, I could quote Tom Lehrer: "The problem with folk music is > that it is written by the people." Considering what you are paying for > this stuff, you might be argued to be getting a pretty good deal. > > My usual modus operandi is to go looking at a live example of the use > of something if I am unclear as to how to use it. This can be an > interesting easter-egg hunt. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
