Support Maven 3.8.1

[robertklaus-bosch]

Maven 3.8.1 has been released with some fixes for CVEs:
https://maven.apache.org/docs/3.8.1/release-notes.html

Would it be possible to support this?

[ppalaga]

Yes, definitely. Somebody just has to find a couple of free cycles for that :)

[robertklaus-bosch]

Let me guess, there is more to do than bumping up the maven.version in the pom.xml 😉
Any pointers what would need to be done for this?

[ppalaga]

It's bumping and seeing what got broken 8-)

[robertk3s]

Damn. Check on darwin fails with compilation error. Could need a hint what went wrong here.

[ppalaga]

Damn. Check on darwin fails with compilation error. Could need a hint what went wrong here.

The error message sounds like some variant of #281 I have restarted the jobs to see if it happens again.

[robertk3s]

@ppalaga thanks for the support. Restarting the checks helped, they passed now!

[robertk3s]

@ppalaga , @gnodet how are we going to proceed with this now?

[robertk3s]

@gnodet wrote on the puill request:

Given 3.8.1 creates some incompatibilities, I'd really like to get the time to work on supporting multiple maven versions as indicated by #143 .

I can totally understand the wish to support multiple versions. I'm not so experienced with GitHub Actions, just thinking that basically it is possible to set the Maven version with -Dmaven.version and do the build again (+ setting a version on the binaries).
Might be doable with this maybe:
https://github.blog/changelog/2020-08-07-github-actions-composite-run-steps/ ?

Or the simply a branch with the 3.6.x and one with the 3.8.x .. that would be simple, but has some disadvantages of course.

What do you think?

[gnodet]

@gnodet wrote on the puill request:

Given 3.8.1 creates some incompatibilities, I'd really like to get the time to work on supporting multiple maven versions as indicated by #143 .

I can totally understand the wish to support multiple versions. I'm not so experienced with GitHub Actions, just thinking that basically it is possible to set the Maven version with -Dmaven.version and do the build again (+ setting a version on the binaries).
Might be doable with this maybe:
https://github.blog/changelog/2020-08-07-github-actions-composite-run-steps/ ?

Or the simply a branch with the 3.6.x and one with the 3.8.x .. that would be simple, but has some disadvantages of course.

What do you think?

Yes, I'm now thinking that's the best way forward.