On Jan 8, 2012, at 7:13, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote:
> Le 08/01/2012 12:11, Christian Grobmeier a écrit : >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 7, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: >>> >>>> Le 07/01/2012 15:36, Gary Gregory a écrit : >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> When can we drop support for M2? >>>> >>>> I guess there are still a lot of m2 users, and for the next few years >>>> there will still be many. At least when I run an "aptitude search maven" >>>> on my Debian Linux box, I only see maven 2 supported. Getting rid of >>>> maven 2 is not an option for me now. >>> >> >> Out of curiosity: why can't you run m3 on debian linux? m3 is java, >> you should be able to download it and place it in your path. > > I probably could. I simply did not try yet, and relied only on what was > provided by the distribution. > >> I thought everybody who wants to build commons components himself >> should be able to install m3 on every plattform with java around. Or >> do I miss something? > > My point is simply that requiring very specific tools or tools versions > that require specific knowledge or installation should be avoided if > possible. We don't have the resources to help users installing these > tools too. We're talking about java programmers here, not app users. I would hope that installing java, ant and maven is in our audience's wheelhouse. Gary > > Luc > >> >>> I'm not sure how it is relevant whether commons users use maven 2 or 3. >>> Even if we require Maven 3 to build a commons component anyone can still >>> use it in a Maven 2 build. They only would require Maven 3 if they actually >>> want to build one of our artifacts on their own. >> >> +1 >> >> Cheers >> Christian >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
