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[jira] [Commented] (ARCHETYPE-495) rename ArchetypeGenerator.generateArchetype() to ProjectGenerator.generateProject()

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARCHETYPE-495?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16997232#comment-16997232 ] 

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented on ARCHETYPE-495:
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What are our rules about incompatible API changes? 

> rename ArchetypeGenerator.generateArchetype() to ProjectGenerator.generateProject()
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>
>                 Key: ARCHETYPE-495
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARCHETYPE-495
>             Project: Maven Archetype
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Generator
>    Affects Versions: 2.4
>            Reporter: Herve Boutemy
>            Assignee: Petar Tahchiev
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: backlog
>
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> {{ArchetypeGenerator.generateArchetype()}} is really misleading: it's not about generating an archetype, but about generating *a project from* an archetype
> this API cause strong confusion in the archetype lifecycle: sample project -> archetype project -> archetype artifact -> generated project



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