Plotnicki, Grzegorz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious if it would be possible/feasible/in-line with maven > philosophy to be able to specify in the <parent/> tag ONLY > <relativePath/> tag or at least, if the <relativePath/> is present be > able to skip the <version/> tag?
It would be impossible, because the pom.xml needs to remain valid when deployed into a repository, at which point the <relativePath/> would no longer be of use. > That is, in the multi-module project, all the modules have to refer to > the parent pom with groupId, artifactId and version in the <parent/> > tag, thus duplicating what is already defined in the parent pom. In > addition, it's rather common for all the modules to share parent's > groupId and version -- groupId is ok, but version changes quite often > and going through all the modules and changing the common version seems > cumbersome and unnecessary -- especially, that <relativePath/> tag could > uniquely identify parent pom. > > Or is there an easier way to achieve the same effect? The release plugin is supposed to do all the updates for you. Max.
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