On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote:
> I have nothing against continuing the way *we* do it, but Maven
> doesn't do it this way. Taking the defaults provided by the Maven
> Release Plugin will create tag names like "struts-1.3.11" over
> "STRUTS_1_3_11".
>
> Either way we decide, it is not a major loss for the other side, but
> not able to accept Maven defaults is a bit disappointing.

Who / what is not able to accept them?

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Martin Cooper


> Paul
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> wrote:
>>> Not to split hairs, Lukasz, but this is the "released" pom -
>>>
>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/maven/tags/struts2-archetype-starter-2.1.8.1/pom.xml
>>>
>>> Which looks fine.
>>>
>>> When I was checking this, it reminded me of something I have been
>>> meaning to ask. If you look at the tag name that Lukasz used -
>>> "struts2-archetype-starter-2.1.8.1" But, somewhere in our docs, we use
>>> a tag name like this - "STRUTS2_ARCHETYPE_STARTER_2_1_8_1" which you
>>> can see here -
>>>
>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/struts2/tags/
>>>
>>> The tag name that Lukasz used is what the release plugin defaults
>>> to... Is there a reason we don't use it? I'm all about sticking to
>>> defaults (since it tends to make the documentation easier), so I am
>>> wondering if there is a reason, other than "that's the way we always
>>> did it"
>>
>> To my knowledge, "that's the way we always did it" is the correct
>> answer here, assuming the question is "upper case and underscores"
>> versus "lower case and dashes". As you can see here, the former has
>> been used since the very beginning of Struts, almost 10 years ago:
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/struts1/tags/
>>
>> Bear in mind that there's an enormous amount of Struts history prior
>> to us adopting Maven, let alone the Maven release plugin, so this is
>> hardly surprising. That the Maven default is different is simply the
>> result of the Maven team picking the wrong default release naming
>> scheme. :-p
>>
>> If there's an easy way to tell the release plugin to use "upper case
>> and underscores" instead of "lower case and dashes", the continuity
>> would be nice, since there's no other good reason to change what we've
>> been doing for so long. If there isn't an easy way to do that, though,
>> and it's a nuisance to change the default for some reason, then I'm
>> not dead set against adopting the Maven way.
>>
>> --
>> Martin Cooper
>>
>>
>>> -Wes
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Lukasz Lenart
>>> <lukasz.len...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2009/12/16 Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org>:
>>>>> In Lukasz's checkins just now, I see version numbers being changed to
>>>>> 2.1.8-SNAPSHOT. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what's going on, but that
>>>>> seems like going backwards. We already have a 2.1.8 and a 2.1.8.1, so
>>>>> it seems to me that any snapshot version we should be using now would
>>>>> need to be 2.1.9-SNAPSHOT, no? After all, snapshots precede the number
>>>>> they're attached to, in terms of version number ordering.
>>>>
>>>> I just switched to 2.1.8-SNAPSHOT because Maven release plugin is
>>>> complaining - after I did the release, everything is ok, please check
>>>> already released pom.xml
>>>>
>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/maven/trunk/struts2-archetype-blank/pom.xml
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> --
>>>> Lukasz
>>>> http://www.lenart.org.pl/
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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