Maybe org.apache.maven.shared.utils.cli.shell.CommandShell should be also removed - I don't see usage of it in this project.

I agree with @slawekjaranowski

Eventually, yes. However it's public API so I don't want to remove it until it's been deprecated for a while longer and ideally we're ready for a major version bump.

I afraid that this never will happened developers don't look for deprecated ...
The same result will be remove it and release next major version.

Looking for this class on GitHub I found 4 repositories where it is used, one of them is archived, two don't have any releases so impact will not be huge.

I'm not comfortable removing public API without reasonable notice. Sounds like there are existing uses.

So please deprecate class with reason.

Another case is that apache components don't have any release plan / calendar so nobody know when next release will be placed.
Also there is no policy about clearing deprecated items.

@elharo This won't even run in Windows 9x because there isn't Java 7 for.

That still doesn't mean we should break the build of projects that have this in their tree. Deprecate and warn them. We can take it out in a few releases.

CommandShell / Windows 95 was marked as Deprecated with MSHARED-860 in cb448b9 and released with 3.3.3 version.

@elharo I guess we can merge this then, right? Nobody had any objections against your code, apart from that we had to deprecate the classes, which @slachiewicz pointed out was done last year.