I just reached out to the users@maven mailing list again to check if there's any resolution for shading behavior post 3.2.5 [1]
[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8b2dcf462de814d06d8e30bafce2c886217c5790a3ee07d33d0b8dfc%40%3Cusers.maven.apache.org%3E On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:08 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > You don't necessarily need to use maven 3.2.5, you just have to know > what to watch out for. > For that reason we are _not_ forcing maven 3.2.5 in general, but for > releases only to be on the safe side. > > Some time ago Gradle was brought up as a potential replacement for > maven, and I'd like to see that discussion concluded before making other > major changes to the maven development process. > > Overall I'm sympathetic to the idea, but not really sold. > If we switch to gradle we obviously don't need it (duh); > if we stick with maven we will have to find a solution for the 3.2.5 > limitation eventually, and I'd much rather solve this problem than keep > working around the limitation. > > On 03/06/2020 15:48, tison wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > Flink forces a fixed version(3.2.5) of Maven while higher version suffers > > from shade issues and > > so on. > > > > Since different projects have different requirement of Maven. It seems a > > good idea we add a > > maven wrapper[1] in our repository which reduces our developers burden. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Best, > > tison. > > > > [1] https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper > > > >