Re: Maven 2 vs Maven 3 plugins

["Manfred Moser" <manfred@mosabuam.com>]

> Hi all,
>
> There is an increasing number of Maven plugins that require Maven 3 and
> can't be upgraded without breaking Maven 2. For example
> maven-install-plugin 2.3 works with Maven 2 and Maven 3, but the version
> 2.4 is for Maven 3 only.
>
> What's the proper way to handle this situation? Should we split these
> plugins to satisfy each version of Maven?
>
> That would give:
> * maven-install-plugin2.3: for Maven 2, doesn't install its jar in
> /usr/share/java to avoid conflicts (I'm not sure it's needed anyway)
> * maven-install-plugin: for Maven 3
>
> What do you think?

Imho we should sort out all situations where people think they have to
stick to Maven 2, migrate them and then deprecate support for Maven 2.

manfred