Vladimir Matveev

> I don't think there are any users of the experimental api so should have been safe Sorry but how did you figure this out? Experimental API was explicitly documented...

It is actually possible to do this, if you explicitly extend the necessary traits: ```scala object CustomJacksonParser extends WithJacksonMapper with JacksonParser { mapper.configure(SomeFeatures.SOME_FEATURE, true) } ``` Then you just use...

Apparently my above code only works for deserializer features, because circe creates a separate JsonFactory specifically to do parsing and does not use the mapper's own factory to do the...

@bioball - I've started the package mapping implementation, just wanted to show the overall direction before I start implementing it for Kotlin. What do you think?

From my experience, correctly setting up a custom component like `java` seems to be not very easy to do correctly. Instead, it seems to me that it would be easier...

Also, I don't think it is a good idea to promote the "shadow jar as classifier" approach. The problem with it is that the shadow jar usually has a different...

> For Maven users, the situation is not any worse than before, in the sense that they will see a classifier with dependencies. That's bad luck, they should move to...

> By reasoning like this the industry would never make any progress. > Gradle supports variants natively and models their dependencies properly. There's a correct model that other tools should...

> but I might prefer to have a syntax where you can use _ as a placeholder, like scala This thing would be simply wonderful! I'm writing Scala on my...