o Addded 'why' to the site
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It is not a 100% API compatible replacement though but a replacement <with improvements>:
lots of methods got cleaned up, generics got added and we dropped a lot of unused code.
+Why ?
+
+ plexus-utils consisted mostly of code that was forked from various apache projects. From a licensing
+ perspective this code became "unclean" when it was forked to codehaus. maven-shared-utils is
+ based on the original from the apache sources.
+
+Why not commons ?
+ We would prefer code to use commons-* code where appropriate, but the plexus-utils became
+ slightly incompatible (different) from the commons over the years, so migrating is not
+ always a 1:1 operation. Migrating to maven-shared-utils is a 1:1 operation in most cases.
Relation to Commons-*
