Hi Bogdan, On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Bogdan Flueras wrote:
> Currently all xwiki-platform submodules have in their pom.xml definition > the following: > > <parent> > <groupId>org.xwiki.platform</groupId> > <artifactId>xwiki-platform-...</artifactId> > <version>3.5-SNAPSHOT</version> > </parent> > > The problem I see is that the parent version is a hardcoded in every > submodule, thus making some some tasks very very difficult. I haven't encountered such issues. Could you be more specific? > This is because Maven cannot read a placeholder value placed inside > <version> tag. > There seems to be some work on behalf of Maven guys for this issue: > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624 but ... > > My proposal is to either: > 1) remove the <version> tag in the parent definition from every child > module and let inheritance do it's job That would generate invalid POMs that cannot be built unless you also checkout parents in the "correct" directory structure. I would call this an anti pattern. > 2) use the <relativePath> *if the child can have access to it's parent pom > by relative path* Note that there's the maven versions plugin to help manipulate versions: http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/ Thanks -Vincent > > I haven't tested yet but if you remove it, will the sub module know from > which parent (which could have many versions) to inherit the <version> > property? > > WDYT? > > > ing. Bogdan Flueras > Tel: +33666116067 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
