Jusrt checking in the display-plugin-updates mojo to the versions plugin. The apply-plugin-updates is a bit tricker as we have to find the pluginManagement sections if necessary
The display-plugin-updates goal will check all the plugins and reporters used in your project and display a list of those plugins with newer versions available. Here are some examples of what this looks like: svn checkout http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/build-helper-maven-plugin build-helper-maven-plugin cd build-helper-maven-plugin mvn versions:display-plugin-updates Which produced the following output: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Build Helper Maven Plugin [INFO] task-segment: [versions:display-plugin-updates] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [versions:display-plugin-updates] [INFO] [INFO] The following plugin updates are available: [INFO] maven-checkstyle-plugin .................................. 2.1 -> 2.2 [INFO] maven-plugin-plugin .................................. 2.4.1 -> 2.4.2 [INFO] maven-pmd-plugin ......................................... 2.3 -> 2.4 [INFO] maven-project-info-reports-plugin ...................... 2.0.1 -> 2.1 [INFO] maven-surefire-report-plugin ......................... 2.4.2 -> 2.4.3 [INFO] [INFO] All plugins have a version specified. [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Fri Aug 15 09:45:42 IST 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 9M/167M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The plugin will also warn if you have not specified the versions of any plugins that you are using and tell you what version you are currently using. Best practice in Maven is to always specify the plugin versions in order to ensure that builds are reproducable. svn checkout http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/tags/xmlbeans-maven-plugin-2.3.1 xmlbeans-maven-plugin cd xmlbeans-maven-plugin mvn versions:display-plugin-updates Which produced the following output: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Maven XML Beans Plugin [INFO] task-segment: [versions:display-plugin-updates] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [versions:display-plugin-updates] [INFO] [INFO] All plugins are using the latest versions. [INFO] [WARNING] The following plugins do not have their version specified: [WARNING] maven-checkstyle-plugin ...................................... 2.2 [WARNING] maven-javadoc-plugin ......................................... 2.4 [WARNING] maven-jxr-plugin ............................................. 2.1 [WARNING] maven-plugin-plugin ........................................ 2.4.2 [WARNING] maven-pmd-plugin ............................................. 2.4 [WARNING] maven-surefire-report-plugin ............................... 2.4.3 [WARNING] org.codehaus.mojo:taglist-maven-plugin ....................... 2.2 [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Fri Aug 15 09:34:03 IST 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 9M/167M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Mark Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It'd also be handy to have goals that display/update dependency versions > too. > > Mark > > 2008/8/14 Stephen Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I was thinking of a display-plugin-updates and a update-plugins monos > > > > Sent from my iPod > > > > On 14 Aug 2008, at 18:44, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> When I find the time for it I'll write down a proposal. > >> > >> I'm also keep to investigate how my ideas correlates with Stephen's > >> plugin. It might be another mojo in that plugin. > >> > >> Dan Tran wrote: > >>> > >>> can you deploy a snaphot for review? :-) > >>> > >>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Not yet, but I have one in my head... > >>>> > >>>> Jason Dillon wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Is there any nice plugin which I can run which will look at the > current > >>>>> project and tell me which plugins are out of date? > >>>>> > >>>>> --jason > >>>>> > >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Dennis Lundberg > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Dennis Lundberg > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
