The plugin should print an excplicit error message if the maven version is lower than the 3.2.5

[andrzejj0]

There's too many confused users reporting guice errors raised because the new components cannot be resolved. I think returning an error message could clear the confusion a bit.

[pzygielo]

I'm shocked this plugin is not using https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Prerequisites!

[pzygielo]

2.13.0 - has it.

[andrzejj0]

2.13.0 - has it.

If it does, how come there are so many users running an older version of maven and reporting errors only now once they upgraded to 2.14.0?

[pzygielo]

80bf105 - plugin w/o prereq
c9c1396 - prereq removed from top-parent

2.11.0/versions-maven-plugin-2.11.0.pom:    <mavenVersion>3.0.5</mavenVersion>
2.12.0/versions-maven-plugin-2.12.0.pom:    <mavenVersion>3.2.5</mavenVersion>

[andrzejj0]

Anyway, thanks. I was going for a check using RuntimeInformation 🤡

[pzygielo]

If it does, how come there are so many users running an older version of maven and reporting errors only now once they upgraded to 2.14.0?

I don't know. They lie?

apache-maven-3.0.5:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin:2.12.0:help (default-cli) on project standalone-pom: The plugin org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin:2.12.0 requires Maven version 3.2.5 -> [Help 1]

[INFO] --- versions-maven-plugin:2.14.0:help (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Versions Maven Plugin 2.14.0
  The Versions Maven Plugin is used when you want to manage the versions of
  artifacts in a project's POM.

This plugin has 35 goals:

versions:commit

This shows - that prerequisite IS BEING checked by maven, even so old as 3.0.5, as long as plugin declares it.
2.14.0 doesn't - and :help is executing fine (as doesn't need much more from maven 3.2.5).

[andrzejj0]

Checked with 3.2.1 to the same results. I guess they probably moved from a version which did not feature that thing in pom.xml.

[andrzejj0]

Anyhoo, it does the job.

[slawekjaranowski]

It was disappeared somehow during split project to modules 😄

Some time ago I have an idea ... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPLUGIN-418
I see that should be implemented

[slawekjaranowski]

80bf105 - plugin w/o prereq c9c1396 - prereq removed from top-parent

2.11.0/versions-maven-plugin-2.11.0.pom:    <mavenVersion>3.0.5</mavenVersion>
2.12.0/versions-maven-plugin-2.12.0.pom:    <mavenVersion>3.2.5</mavenVersion>

so I removed prerequisites from parent and forgot add to plugin module ... You do not have to thank me 😕

[andrzejj0]

Happens to the best 😉

[pzygielo]

80bf105 - plugin w/o prereq c9c1396 - prereq removed from top-parent

2.11.0/versions-maven-plugin-2.11.0.pom:    <mavenVersion>3.0.5</mavenVersion>
2.12.0/versions-maven-plugin-2.12.0.pom:    <mavenVersion>3.2.5</mavenVersion>

so I removed prerequisites from parent and forgot add to plugin module

This was not helping anyway.
Note (from MPLUGIN-418):

The failure message should add a hint that the prerequisites element is not inherited (https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.8.6/maven-model-builder/#inheritance-assembly). This is a common case for this error.

So it was missed on plugin module creation in first place.