On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Raymond Feng <[email protected]> wrote: >> What about this: >> http://maven.apache.org/plugin-developers/cookbook/add-svn-revision-to-manifest.html? >> >> Adding the revision to the MF seems to be non-invasive. >> > > The svn revision in the manifest seems to be more like informative, right ? > Would we need to access this information programmatically ? > >
Yes the idea is to be able to get it programatically. I did look at putting it in the manifest, and doing that doesn't preclude also having a programatic API as well, but the main issue is though that often we don't know what manifest will actually end up being used as the jars are often fiddle about, merged, or the manifest rewritten. ...ant
