Great stuff, now we're bordering on infringing the dependency plugin ;) Mark
2008/8/15 Stephen Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > display-dependency-updates goal now added > > The display-dependency-updates goal will check all the dependencies used in > your project and display a list of those dependencies 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-dependency-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 dependency updates are available: > [INFO] org.apache.maven:maven-artifact ........................ 2.0 -> 2.0.9 > [INFO] org.apache.maven:maven-plugin-api ...................... 2.0 -> 2.0.9 > [INFO] org.apache.maven:maven-project ....................... 2.0.2 -> 2.0.9 > [INFO] org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils ....................... 1.1 -> 1.5.6 > [INFO] > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 17 seconds > [INFO] Finished at: Fri Aug 15 10:46:03 IST 2008 > [INFO] Final Memory: 10M/167M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Mark Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2008/8/15 Stephen Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I have plans for that too!!! >> > >> > I want one goal that looks at all the projects in the reactor and ensures >> > they are all using the same versions of dependencies external to the >> > reactor. >> > >> > I want another goal that looks ate all the projects in the reactor and >> > ensures they are depending on the reactor versions... for example if you >> > have checked out log4j and are working on a custom version of it, and >> this >> > custom version is a project in your reactor... then this goal would look >> at >> > all the other projects in your reactor, and if they are depending on any >> > version of log4j, it will switch them to the version in your reactor. >> > >> > If I get really fancy, I may have a try-plugin-updates and >> > try-dependency-updates goal which relies on your build's tests to see if >> the >> > dependencies can be updated... >> > >> > That goal would look and see that your project depends on log4j 1.2.5, it >> > will start with a "clean verify" to check that all unit and integration >> > tests are passing. Then it will try the latest log4j and run "clean >> verify" >> > moving back one version at a time if the build fails... Then you iterate >> > through all dependencies until you can make no more changes... of course >> > that could take some time!!! >> >> I like, keep up the good work :) >> >> Mark >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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]
