On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 22:06 +0200, Reinhard Poetz wrote: > Jorg Heymans wrote: > > Reinhard Poetz wrote: > > > > > >>Is there any possibility to provide automatic *unofficial* releases of > >>our artifacts? I'm asking because for me (and I think for others too) > >>it's an important requirement that only non-SNAPSHOT artifacts are used > >>in my POMs. That's the only way to guarantee that a POM working today > >>will still work tommorrow or in two years.
One possibility is of course to maintain these non-official artifacts in the context of your own project. > > > > > > I fully agree with your argument about producing reproducible artifacts. > > > > However I'm not sure what to think when you say 'unofficial release'. A > > release is a release, whether we send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or not. > > The only difference to a snapshot releases is that we publish identifiable > artifacts like cocoon-forms-r412334.jar instead of cocoon-forms-SNAPSHOT.jar. > Compare it with a nightly build and producing nightly builds has been done > for ages. <snip/> If Cocoon has say 50 artifacts (I'm wildly guessing here), and you do 50 releases a year, in 5 years this will give 12.500 released jars. Seems like quite a lot to keep around forever :-) -- Bruno Dumon http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
