On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Brett Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this has come up before and we wanted to avoid doing it for things on > the command line, where it is hard to override. In general that would be > true, but for the archetype plugin being the first experience people have > with Maven, a bit more reliability would probably be useful. > > I thought we could apply the patch below in 2.2.2. This would by default lock > it down, but allow the comparatively simple cmd line to get a different > version: > > $ mvn archetype:generate -Dmaven.archetype.version=2.0-alpha-6-SNAPSHOT
Can't you already specify the version with the long form mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:VERSION:generate (which doesn't look like that much more typing, and sticks to an established convention) ? -- Wendy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
