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Idan Bidani commented on MNG-5533: ---------------------------------- M3_HOME name is not good because it will require the same discussion on maven 4(if there will be). If any change should take place it should be MVN_HOME like Michael suggests. The version should not be part of the var name > M2 vs M3 > -------- > > Key: MNG-5533 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5533 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Class Loading, Command Line, Documentation: General, > General > Affects Versions: Issues to be reviewed for 3.x > Environment: Windows > Reporter: Martin Spamer > Priority: Critical > > Maven 3 uses the M2 environment variable. Surely it would be more reasonable > to update this to M3 to allow sensible migration. e.g > M2=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin > M2_HOME=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-2.2.1 > M3=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-3.1.1\bin > M3_HOME=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-3.1.1 > MAVEN=%M2% or MAVEN=%M3% > PATH=%MAVEN%;%PATH% -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira