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

[jira-importer]

Hervé Boutemy opened ARCHETYPE-495 and commented

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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Affects: 2.4

2 votes, 3 watchers

[jira-importer]

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

What are our rules about incompatible API changes?

[jira-importer]

Hervé Boutemy commented

for such internal API, no strong strategy: the only question is to know if this could cause an issue for an IDE plugin, for example and even for that, I suppose we could add a deprecated class extending the new one to mimic the old API