On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 10:06 AM Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le mer. 5 juin 2019 à 15:59, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 14:33, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > Le mer. 5 juin 2019 à 15:18, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > > > > > I'm not sure what problem this is trying to solve. > > > > > > > > How is it intended to use the facility? > > > > > > Ideally: > > > $ mvn -Pbetarelease [... other settings ...] > -Dbetasubversion=alpha1 > > > where the latter profile would take care of changing the > > > toplevel package name > > > o.a.c.somecomp > > > to > > > o.a.c.somecomp.alpha1 > > > > > > And, if the upcoming version is, say, "2.3", the generated > > > artefact(s) would be: > > > commons-somecomp-2.3-alpha1 > > > > That's not what I intended to ask. > > > > What problem does the ability to readily change the package name > actually solve? > > And how are the amended packages going to be used? > > Maybe, I don't understand the question. > The purpose is to be able to quickly produce several beta releases that > don't have to be compatible with other beta releases but that can coexist > for the purpose of allowing users to compare the impact of the changes. > This is over the top IMO. That's what JApiCmp is for unless I am missing something. Gayr > > Gilles > > > > > > Regards, > > > Gilles > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 17:35, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This sounds like a shade feature, yes. However, in order to > > > > > automatically extract the version extra data and detect a version > > > > > keyword like "alpha" may require some additional code, though maybe > > > > > the shade plugin already supports that. > > > > > > > > > > Alternatively, JUnit 5.x uses a tool called API Guardian for > marking > > > > > which APIs are stable or not: > > > > > https://github.com/apiguardian-team/apiguardian > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 05:53, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > > > > > > > Does someone see a practical way to automate package names > > > > > > and source files conversions so that each all alpha/beta releases > > > > > > can be used together (e.g. to compare their behaviours). > > > > > > > > > > > > I mean, for release version "1.0-alpha1", the top-level package > > > > > > name "o.a.c.compid" would be turned into "o.a.c.compid.alpha1". > > > > > > > > > > > > This would also solve issues with compatibility checkers (with > the > > > > > > added bonus that JAR hell could never happen). > > > > > > > > > > > > Couldn't the "shade" plugin be put to use (so that all artefacts > have > > > > > > their top-level package transparently set to > "o.a.c.compid.alpha1" > > > > > > and all the tools operate on that)? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Gilles > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
