wolframhaussig

I have updated my PR to make the library optional. Another thought - untested yet: What would you think of using the official [maven library](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven/maven-artifact/3.8.1): the latest version is from...

I have added maven as alternative VersionManager - have a look and tell me what you think...

@decebals I would prefer to keep the Java 8 compatibility. A lot of users are still on the openJDK 8 which is still supported for a while (e.g. Azul supports...

maybe switch the DefaultVersionManager from jsemver to semver4j (see PR for semver4j #454)?

I think that the parallel loading of plugins with the same pluginId but different providers is a real usecase(e.g. having a `db-support`-plugin from both `com.oracle` and `com.microsoft`) but I do...

You are right, there is just the benefit of having a few quality of life features, e.g.: - start/stop all plugins from a provider - whitelist/blacklist providers in enabled.txt /...

I don't know either as I have not used travis-ci in the past. Any reasons not to migrate to GitHub action

I am not entirely happy with the solution yet but I want to get your opinion @decebals : Is this the right way to go?

Unfortunately, SonarQube will not run on foreign Pull requests (see details [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39712531/not-authorized-to-execute-any-sonarqube-analysis-when-building-pull-request-from)) - sorry for that... > Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.9.0.2155:sonar (default-cli) on project pf4j: You're not authorized to...

The more obvious way for a java developer would be the export annotation in the package-info. What would be the expected outcame if I have classes `com.github.test.A` and `com.github.test.internals.B` when...