Although many Maven devs hang out here, I think that you would get a better answer posting to maven dev list. I remember there was some discussion some time ago on how to handle this, but I can't remember exactly the reasoning. You could also try searching the archive for that list.
/Anders On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com>wrote: > Little bit of history: I was at some point hoping to introduce the > equivalent of Ant's file sets or stuff like that into some plugins, hence > the Plexus Resources (1), which would allow some serious performance > improvements, but that got never picked up. It might be a reason to prefer > Plexus IO. Apart from that, the plexus stuff is in whitespread use overall > in Maven and eliminating it might have unexpected side effects. > > [1] http://plexus.codehaus.org/plexus-components/plexus-resources/ > > > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise > <khmarba...@gmx.de>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> i have a question concerning the plexus-utils/maven-shared-utils. During >> the investigation of a bug in appassembler-plugin ( >> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAPPASM-187). I have seen that in >> plexus-utils (3.0.7) the method FileUtils.copyDirectory() seemed to be not >> working. The same as in maven-shared-utils. After checking >> maven-shared-utils (0.1) i have detected that the unit tests which are >> checking the copyDirectory part a currently set to @Ignore. >> >> I have found a solution in using commons-io package (2.4) but this would >> result in a JDK 1.5+ dependency (Does someone know a version of commons-io >> which works with JDK 1.4+? . The other question is why we don't use >> commons-io directly (apart of the optional dependency in >> maven-shared-utils) instead of rewriting things in maven-shared-utils or >> did i misunderstand the intention of maven-shared-utils? >> >> Are there any particular reasons not to to use commons-io package >> directly (as a dependency for a plugin)? >> >> Can someone enlighten me a little bit? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Kind regards >> Karl-Heinz Marbaise >> >> >> -- >> MfG >> Karl Heinz Marbaise >> -- >> SoftwareEntwicklung Beratung Schulung Tel.: +49 (0) 2405 / 415 893 >> Dipl.Ing.(FH) Karl Heinz Marbaise ICQ#: 135949029 >> Hauptstrasse 177 USt.IdNr: DE191347579 >> 52146 Würselen http://www.soebes.de >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: >> >> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >> >> >> > > > -- > The best argument for celibacy is that the clergy will sooner or later > become extinct. > >
