I think both choices are fine. The risk-averse users on Maven 2.2.1 are probably also not on Java 7 :) Put the other way, requiring a bump to Maven 3 to build plugins on Java 7 sounds reasonable to me.
On 24/09/2012, at 6:56 AM, Dennis Lundberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > We have other developers to think about as well. Even though might be OK > with requiring Maven 3 to build our plugins, the plugin testing stuff is > used by many other plugins. Since they might not be OK with it, I think > we should do a 1.3 release. > > On 2012-09-23 22:44, Kristian Rosenvold wrote: >> At the moment, most of the plugin it's don't run under java 7 (dont >> know about 1.6). >> >> The reasons for this seems to be largely that the version of easymock >> that is used in all released versions of plugin-testing >> is incompatible with java 7. And since it's easymock classextension, >> it looks like upgrading has to be painstakingly >> synchronized between plugin-testing and the client (you can't just >> override in "maven-assembly-plugin") >> >> Now version 2.0 of plugin-testing was released which required maven 3 >> to build. Right now I'm considering releasing >> 2.1 to fix the easymock "situation", but I'm also contemplating >> releasing 1.3 instead to fix the easymock situation there. >> >> The thing is, if I only fix this in 2.1 I will effectively force about >> half our plugins to require maven 3 to build. How much of an issue >> will this be wrt maintaining 2.2.1 comptaibility ? >> >> I would very much appreciate your .02 euros on this one ;) >> >> Kristian >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > -- > Dennis Lundberg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Brett Porter [email protected] http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter http://twitter.com/brettporter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
