SVN says it is pgier (Paul Gier). I am happy to implement it, I guess my question was more if this was left off because it turned out to be a gigantic nightmare to implement.
I'll have a look. Thanks, S. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> > >
