----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" <mizdebsk@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Fedora Java Development List" <java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:46:42 AM > Subject: Maven upgrade to version 3.1.0 > > Version 3.1.0 of Apache Maven was recently released. It is a > long-awaited release which brings numerous new features and fixes many > bugs. A full list is available in Maven 3.1.0 release notes [1]. > > I think it's important for Fedora to switch to new Maven as soon as > possible. Unfortunately there are signifficant incompatibilities > between Maven 3.1.0 and 3.0.5 which make this process non-trivial. > > Maven 3.1.0 switched from Sonatype Aether to Eclipse Aether and from > Sonatype Sisu to Eclipse Sisu. Plugins that directly depend on Aether > or Sisu may no longer work with Maven 3.1.0. Upstream lists [2] some > plugins that were or need to be updated to work with Maven 3.1.0. > > I have created a tracker bug [3] which is intended to lists tasks > needed to be done in order to migrate to Maven 3.1.0 as well as any > bugs related to the migration. I have populated the tracker with all > changes needed that I am aware of at the moment, but feel free to add > more bugs if you find them. > > This is fairly complicated process as there are circular package > dependencies because of which several packages need to be updated at the > same time. I will ask release engineering to create a dedicated Koji > tag in order not to break rawhide during the process. Mikolaj, Thanks for taking the lead to make this happen. It is highly appreciated. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team > > [1] http://maven.apache.org/docs/3.1.0/release-notes.html > [2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/AetherClassNotFound > [3] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/985674 > > -- > Mikolaj Izdebski > Software Engineer, Red Hat > IRC: mizdebsk > -- > java-devel mailing list > java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
