On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:03 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > The assembly descriptor id (e.g. <id>src</id>) is automatically > appended to the name of the archives created by the assembly plugin. > > Up until version 2.2-beta-4 of the plugin, the <id> tag was allowed to > be empty, but with 2.2 this changed [1] - the id must now be > not-empty. > This means that for example the binary archives will have -bin > appended to the archive name. > > There is a configuration item that can be used to suppress the suffix: > <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId> > However this suppresses the suffix for both bin and src (i.e. they > then have the same name), and it does not appear to be possible to > suppress the suffix only for the binary archives. > > Therefore I think we should standardise on -bin (and -src) suffixes > for the archives (we cannot stay on assembly 2.2-beta4 forever). > > This means ensuring that the appropriate property is set for the > commons download plugin: > > <commons.binary.suffix>bin</commons.binary.suffix> > <commons.release.2.binary.suffix>bin</commons.release.2.binary.suffix>
The default values for these in commons-parent is "-bin" - so there is no need to set these in any component poms. The only reason these binary suffix parameters were ever used was for pre-maven releases that didn't have a suffix so that the download page could be correctly generated. Niall > S. > > [1] > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/faq.html#required-classifiers > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
