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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:30:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: Correcting a groupID
From: Benson Margulies <bimargulies@gmail.com>
To: Maven Users List <users@maven.apache.org>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Stephen Connolly
<stephen.alan.connolly@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not have commons-net:commons-net become an empty jar which has a
> dependency on org.apache.commons:net
>
> that way, anyone with the old GA coords will just have an empty jar on their
> classpath and the correct jar as well

i don't see it.

Component A is sitting out there with a dependency on c-n:c-n:1

Component B has a dependency on A and also on c-n:c-n:1

Sebb changes the group ID.

Now, A still depends on c-n:c-n:1
B depends on org.apache.commons.net:c-n:12, and on A
And we've got two dueling versions in classpath.

It doesn't help to release a new version c-n:c-n:12, since A isn't
using a range, it's pointing at '1'.

Am I missing something?


>
> On 26 August 2010 00:13, Benson Margulies <bimargulies@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me recap the pain scenario here:
>>
>> Existing poms reference commons-net under the old group ID.
>>
>> commons-net releases a new version under a new group ID.
>>
>> Dependencies under the old group ID won't be seen as 'the same thing'
>> as the new group ID, so
>>
>> a project that references the new group ID and has a dependency that
>> uses the old group ID gets both in the classpath, and probably
>> experiences chaos until repaired with exclusions.
>>
>> Unless maven grew a feature whereby the new artifact could explicitly
>> declare itself a successor of the old one under the other name, this
>> is unavoidable. Either don't rename or live with this as an annoyance
>> to the users of the new version. Renaming packages might help, insofar
>> as the two versions might then coexist happily.
>>
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