How about the Version-Info maven plugin? https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-maven-plugins//src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/versioninfo/VersionInfoMojo.java
It seems generally useful outside of Hadoop and it helps projects be specific when referencing their versions in other places (like if we add a maven plugin that runs releasedocmaker, or when building their api docs). On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@altiscale.com> wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > Allen, you've been chugging away at the build support changes in > > test-patch[4]. That looks like it's going to change a bunch of stuff. > > Should we wait for it to land to have an initial release? > > I think so, yes. It’s getting very very close to finished. Adding > gradle & scala support requires a lot of deep changes with some major API > changes to go with them. I’d rather get those in sooner rather than > later, since those changes open the door to add even more build tools and > compiled language support in a much easier fashion. > > > Thoughts? Concerns? Other things folks want to make sure get done? Maybe > > the build question for test-patch[5]? ;) > > HADOOP-12298 is definitely a blocker. Otherwise builds break and > the output is weird with mvn site. > > -- Sean
