yeah I was just not aware that sonatype gives us easy access to snapshots repo. Knowing this makes me feel better about doing it the maven way.
-Tom On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:35 PM, kristian <m.krist...@web.de> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Thomas E Enebo <tom.en...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> We frequently update a library in build_lib today with the intention to >> release it before our next jruby release. > > > > @Tom I am sure you know this: the usual maven procedure is using snapshots > - assuming that all of you can deploy snapshots releases for those > frequently updated library. the maven-release-plugin is making sure that > you do not release with any snapshot reference. but it might not turn into > shapshots again after the release is done. at least with those frequently > updated library if they have a sonatype setup it is straight forward to > deploy a release: $ mvn deploy > > - christian > > -- blog: http://blog.enebo.com twitter: tom_enebo mail: tom.en...@gmail.com