On 16 May 2011 00:21, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Ah, I understand now. I'd not noticed that these were overriding the parent parameters. I can therefore remove <commons.binary.suffix> from Commons Net. The other will have to remain as the 1.4.1 archives don't have the -bin suffix. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
