You'd need to dig out who originally contributed that goal... they might remember. I know it was a goal I didn't write
On 4 February 2014 10:03, Stephane Nicoll <stephane.nic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking at the versions-maven-plugin to force a build against a set > of "verified" dependencies. The idea is that a sub-project might declare > some older dependencies for backward-compat reason but we still want to > build the whole suite against a set of specific dependencies that would be > advertised as the one to use. > > Forcing the dependencies in a Maven project is not easy because it will > take the "closest" definition. But there might be a way using the > versions-maven-plugin compare-dependencies as it has the ability to modify > the POM itself. So we could run a build that would first update the > dependencies, run maven again against that modified dependency and then > cleanup the local change for the next build. > > The problem is that this goal has a 'updatePropertyVersions' that is > supposed to replace version in properties but the flag is used nowhere. > > Does anybody know why and do you think that sounds like a feasible option? > > Thanks, > S. >
