Re: Maven 4.0.0 namespace from an XML perspective

"Martin Desruisseaux via dev" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.turbine.maven.devel
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Hello Chris

Le 04/04/2026 à 17:21, Chris Lafren a écrit :

> I don't understand where that "been there for 4 years" argument comes 
> from.
>
I don't know neither, I just repeated what I saw on the mailing list, 
but never verified.

The thing that worry me a little bit is that I don't really know how 
well understood the technical issues were before the vote took place. Do 
anyone who voted A understand that this is equivalent to a vote for 
changing the package name of a library even if we only added a few 
classes to that package without breaking the compatibility of any 
previously existing classes? Or are we victims of the fact that XML 
namespaces often have a year or version number in their URL, which gives 
a psychological incentive to increase that number even if we should not?

If there is no answer to above question, I guess that I have to assume 
that the vote was an informed choice in favor of preserving established 
Maven 4 practice of the last few years, and that it was considered by 
the majority as more important than creating technical debt.

     Martin
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