I disagree, the problem is not when using a transitive dependencies. Maven is just a tool to build something, it's not used to launch a process while downloading the binaries at the same time. At the end, people check what ends up in their distribution (be it a war or a tar.gz) and at this point, they know that there is an incubator artifact. You could argue the same thing about non-incubating artifact also: when building a release, I check what's inside to ensure there is no incompatible or unneeded artifacts ...
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:52 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/06/2008, Guillaume Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> > 1. Incubator releases go into Central >> >> >> +1 >> >> I think having the "incubator" or "incubating" word in the version >> name brings sufficient awareness to the users. > > But Maven does not warn about using incubator versions. > > If you are adding a direct dependency on an incubator version, then > the user may understand the significance of the word. Or they may not, > depending on whether they understand the jargon correctly. > > But if the dependency is a transitive one, then the user does not get > to know about this (unless they scan the maven log very carefully) > >> While ServiceMix was in incubation, we had sometime a hard time to >> tell our users that being in incubation has nothing to do with the >> quality of the code, but rather with IP and mostly community building. >> Given we had to explain that, it is clear our users were aware that >> the project was still incubating. >> >> >> > >> > 2. Regular releases cannot use Incubator artifacts >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Guillaume Nodet >> ------------------------ >> Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
