On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > > >it could be done as a fork > > That is fair. Everything could be done as a fork. >
Actually no, and this is a big problem with the Maven repository system. A third party cannot fork a Maven artifact and publish it to Maven Central as a drop-in replacement for the original artifact because they can't publish the fork under the same group ID. And since they have to change the group ID, they also have to change the package name to avoid split classpaths and broken builds, and that means the new artifact can't be swapped in for the old one without changing the source code of dependent projects. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
