On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>  > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>  >>  > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
>  >>  >> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>  >>  >>  > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >>  >>  >> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>  >>  >>  >>  > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >>  >>  >>  >> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  > I just re-published all the component sites and notice 
> that (by
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  > mistake) it had used a patched copy of the
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  > maven-project-info-reports-plugin that I have in my local 
> repo
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  > (sorry!). Anyway I submitted a patch to maven to include 
> the Java
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  > version on the dependencies page. The feedback I got was 
> they prefer
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  > it on the project summary page - so I submitted a patch 
> for that as
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  > well.
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  > Logging is an example of using different source/target 
> versions:
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  >    http://commons.apache.org/logging/dependencies.html
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  >    http://commons.apache.org/logging/project-summary.html
>  >>  >>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  The part about "It has been built using Java 1.5" in the 
> dependencies
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  report isn't accurate. 1.5 is the version used (by you) to 
> build and
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  publish the site. I used 1.4 when I did the logging release, 
> so having
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  anything else there is misleading. I think that part should 
> be removed.
>  >>  >>  >>  >>  What extra value does it give to users, providing it was 
> correct?
>  >>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  >>  > I could ask the same question of maven and the Build-Jdk it 
> puts in
>  >>  >>  >>  > the manifest which is really mis-leading since the 
> source/target
>  >>  >>  >>  > settings are missing - except here in commons.
>  >>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  >>  The Build-Jdk in this case is the actual JDK that was used to 
> produce
>  >>  >>  >>  the jar file. So it is correct. Having the source and target in 
> there is
>  >>  >>  >>  much better though, for the reasons you mention below.
>  >>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  >>  > My answer though is its a warning - since setting the target 
> option
>  >>  >>  >>  > doesn't actually guarantee it will run on that version if 
> API's from
>  >>  >>  >>  > later java versions have been used.
>  >>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  >>  But in this case it's not a warning. It the JDK that was used to 
> build
>  >>  >>  >>  the *site* - not the jar file. That doesn't tell a user anything.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > OK looks like we're mis-communicating here - what exactly did you 
> mean
>  >>  >>  > by "providing it was correct" in your original question? I took it 
> to
>  >>  >>  > mean "providing it was the value used to build the jar for the
>  >>  >>  > release".
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  Right, that's what I meant.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > OK well that was the question I was answering - not if it wasn't
>  >>  > correct which I didn't disagree with.
>  >>
>  >>  Great, so do we agree on this summary?
>  >
>  > No not really - the source and target versions don't necessarily
>  > relate to the release either. Take codec - Henri just bumped that up
>  > to 1.4 - but the Codec 1.3 release was (I assume) JDK 1.3 compatible.
>
>  I was asking, because I wanted to fix and close MPIR-80.
>
>  We really do need properly versioned sites, for your patch to be used
>  without the risk of misinformation.

My patch makes no difference to what you term mis-information. For
example, if someone adds/removes/changes version of a component's
dependency AFTER a release and re-publishes the site then whats
published no longer relates to the last release. The same is true for
the whole site - e.g. adding a new feature and documenting it in a
user guide and re-publishing.

For me though, having the site reflect whats currently in trunk and
not the latest release is OK and I wouldn't term it mis-information -
its the latest information.

I did that patch originally because Sebb kept asking for the java
version to be on the dependencies page. However given his recent
comments it clearly doesn't meet his requirements. I think its quite
nice and adding it does no harm, but I'm less interested in it now if
you just want to close it as WONT FIX,

Niall

>  > Niall
>  >
>  >>  - It is good to put the "source" and "target" version parameters for the
>  >>  compiler plugin in the reports.
>  >>
>  >>  - It is bad to put the JDK version in the reports, because it is too
>  >>  difficult to get the correct value for it.
>  >

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