[jboss-as7-dev] cant get rid of jetty maven plugin - so lets mavenize JBoss Modules

[David M. Lloyd]

On 02/27/2013 08:45 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
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> On 2/26/2013 4:23 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> On 02/26/2013 03:19 PM, Fernando Nasser wrote:
>>> I probably should mention my motivations...
>>>
>>> The future generation of RPMs will install the JAR files in a maven layout, so we just need to point the modules.xml to that location.
>>> No more symlinks!
>>
>> It will be just in time to be obsolete again.  TBH I don't think this is
>> a smart move at all; Maven isn't the end state for Java build, and it
>> makes zero sense for Java distribution other than development/test time.
>>
> Can you please share with us exactly how using a maven repo makes no
> sense?

*Having* the ability to load a module from a Maven repo may or may not 
make sense; that's a different branch of the thread.  Using a Maven repo 
for OS distribution though seems kinda pointless - it's an arbitrary 
layout which I still believe will not survive Java 9 (though of course I 
might be wrong about that; I've been wrong once or twice in the past, 
believe it or not).

> I keep waiting to hear your legendary insight, but instead I'm
> just getting a bunch of unsubstantiated claims and some nonsense that
> maven repos aren't going to exist in the future...Myself and others have
> given some pretty compelling use cases.  It would be nice to hear a
> counter-argument so we can have a real discussion over this instead of
> just excepting your word as gospel.

You shouldn't accept my word as gospel, nor should you accept my 
skepticism as denial.  I don't think there's any problem with being 
cautious about this kind of change, and I don't think you can fault me 
for wanting to be certain that it fits in with (i.e. doesn't actively 
hamper) our long-term hopes and plans for Java 9 modularity.

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- DML