The ModeShape project is planning to move to Maven 3 for our build system, and away from Maven 2.0.9 (or 2.2.1). We’ve been struggling for quite some time with a number of Maven 2’s quirks, including difficulties with dependencies in our assemblies, and everything we’ve heard is that Maven 3 is a significant improvement all around. Unfortunately, we’ll have to make some changes to our POM files to get Maven 3 working, and once we commit these changes Maven 2 will no longer work. In other words, project developers will have to upgrade their local Maven installations before they’ll be able to build ModeShape.
If you have any thoughts or comments on this effort (especially if you’re opposed!), please let us know by commenting on the JIRA issue.
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