[jdom-interest] Preparing next release

[Rolf Lear]

Hi again.

Just to let you know that while I was originally going to release 2.0.2 
before month-end, I have instead decided to release it probably some 
time next week.

In the interim I am learning a bunch about maven, and I am tracking down 
some additional input to how to resolve the maven problems. It seems 
that learning maven to the extent I need is not going to be a 1-day 
exercise.

So, expect 2.0.2 before the 9th of June.

Rolf

On 28/05/2012 7:47 AM, Rolf Lear wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I am getting ready to push out version 2.0.2 of the JDOM 2.x stream.
>
> Currently in this release is the fix for issue #81 (resetting live
> FitlerLists after a remove()).
>
> This is the only known bug in JDOM 2.x and a 'hotfix' has been available
> for a few weeks. It is time to push out the official release.
>
>
> Additionally, there are issues/concerns regarding the maven artifiacts.
> The core issue is that currently it is not possible to 'require' both JDOM
> 1.x and 2.x in your maven project. There appears to be only one solution to
> this issue and that is to have different 'artifacts' for JDOM 1 and JDOM 2.
> Obviously (in hindsight) it should have been done this way originally, but
> there was simply not enough 'expert' feedback/input/assistance when the
> decisions were being made, and this mistake is now something that just has
> to be lived with.
>
> As a result, it appears necessary to deploy JDOM 2.0.2 to the maven
> artifact 'jdom2' (previous versions were deployed to 'jdom').
>
> While this change will make it possible to include both JDOM 1.x and 2.x
> in your maven projects it will also introduce a number of irritating
> side-effects:
>
> For 'regular' users, note:
> 1. previous versions of JDOM 2.x were called jdom-2.0.0.jar and
> jdom-2.0.1.jar. This new version will be called jdom2-2.0.2.jar, and the
> 'zip' file will be called jdom2-2.0.2.zip
>
> For maven users, note:
>
> 1. if you have already incorporated JDOM 2.x in your project you should
> update your dependency to be for artifact jdom2, not jdom
> 2. ensure any maven project you require that also depends on JDOM aware of
> this problem... because, if that required project 'upgrades' to the jdom
> artifact version 2.0.1 (instead of jdom2) then you will get two different
> versions of jdom 2.x in your classpath, and there is no telling what will
> result.....
>
>
> So, it is quite possible that by 'solving' the issue relating to requiring
> both JDOM 1.x and 2.x, that we will instead be introducing even worse
> problems, but I have been assured that this is the 'only' way to move
> forward from here.
>
> If anyone has comments, concerns, suggestions, I am all ears.
>
> Rolf
>
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