err...pluginManagement section even ;) Damian
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Damian Bradicich <dbradic...@sonatype.com>wrote: > Why not define the pluginDependency section in a parent pom, then each of > your projects uses this as a parent, and pulls in all the plugin dep > versions defined in it (or overrides in project pom if necessary). Seems > that would be simplest solution > > Damian > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Benson Margulies > <bimargul...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I don't know about plugin-registry.xml, but you can distribute a >> settings.xml for use with -gs that has an active-by-default profile >> with a pluginManagement section that does the job. >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Kasun Gajasinghe <kasu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I have a requirement where I need to specify specific versions for a >> > set of (basic) plugins. Adding the versions to the pom isn't an option >> > because we need to set the plugin versions for a vast number of >> > _unrelated_ builds. >> > As I've found at [1], I've manually created a plugin-registry.xml file >> > with needed plugin versions added. In addition to that, I've created >> > maven-metadata-local.xml file in the m2 repo under the plugin >> > directories, pointing to <latest> and <release> versions. >> > >> > But, unfortunately, these specified versions were not picked up by >> > mvn. I needed latest maven-compiler-plugin version 2.3.2, but it >> > always try to use 2.0.2. I've noticed that [1] is somewhat outdated >> > because --check-plugin-latest parameter doesn't available anymore. So, >> > I'm asking, does the plugin-registry.xml is still used by maven? If >> > not what is the mechanism for specifying specific plugin versions >> > (apart from current/parent pom)? >> > >> > (I've seen in some posts that the plugin-registry.xml isn't used >> > anymore, but debug mode shows that mvn retrieves data from that file. >> > ) Apparently, maven-metada-local.xml isn't created automatically for >> > me either. How I can instruct mvn to do that? >> > >> > My plugin-registry.xml is at [2]. (There wasn't a template for that. >> > So, hope the format is correct!). maven-metadata-local.xml of >> > maven-compiler-plugin is at [3]. >> > I'm using official apache maven-2.2.1 build. >> > >> > Your help is much appreciated. >> > >> > [1] >> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-plugin-registry.html >> > [2] http://pastebin.com/yprQU2D2 >> > [3] http://pastebin.com/Y375dwMg >> > >> > Thanks, >> > --Kasun >> > >> > -- >> > ~~~*******'''''''''''''*******~~~ >> > Kasun Gajasinghe, >> > University of Moratuwa, >> > Sri Lanka. >> > Blog: http://blog.kasunbg.org >> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> >
