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Steve Ebersole commented on MNG-3311:
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FYI...
After verifying some more, it appears the overriding in general does not work
at all in 2.0.8. I was still pointing at a 2.1-SNAPSHOT Jason built for me
with this change when he found the cause of the overriding not working. My
understanding was that this was also supposed to make it into 2.0.8, but that
does not appear to be the case.
To be clear, even the following will not work on 2.0.8:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>antlr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${antlrPluginVersion}</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>antlr</groupId>
<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
<!-- explicit version override -->
<version>2.7.6</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
...
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
> Better/easier way to override plugin dependencies
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-3311
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3311
> Project: Maven 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Dependencies, Plugins and Lifecycle
> Affects Versions: 2.0.8
> Reporter: Steve Ebersole
> Attachments: antlr-problem-part2.tar.gz
>
>
> Currently, the only way to override the version of a dependency used by a
> plugin is to "fully specify the dependency" in the
> build/plugins/plugin/dependencies section. This is difficult for cases where
> the project itself depends on said dependency as well. Take the case of the
> antlr-maven-plugin at codehaus (as this is where I experienced the problem).
> The plugin is used to generate parsers as part of the build using Antlr. The
> project, itself, would also need to define Antlr as a dependency since it
> would then have a compile and runtime dependency on Antlr. So, at the very
> least, we end up with two definitions of the Antlr dependency.
> For background, defining the same dep twice is not that big of a deal. I
> "dealt with it" by using a property for the Antlr version to use, and then
> referencing that in the dependency definitions. Where it started to get very
> unsavory for me was when I started moving my "base line" deps into a
> <dependencyManagement/> section, and especially when that
> <dependencyManagement/> was defined in the parent pom. The issue I ran into
> was that I could no longer use a property (if I defined it in the parent, it
> is not inherited into the child where i need to define the plugin). The next
> thing I tried that I "reasonably" thought would work was to define the
> <dependencyManagement/> section in the parent, and in the child to define the
> dependencies/dependency without the <version/> tag and then to try the same
> in the build/plugins/plugin/dependencies/dependency section. However that is
> apparently not valid in the build/plugins/plugin/dependencies/dependency
> (org.apache.maven.BuildFailureException: For artifact {antlr:antlr:null:jar}:
> The version cannot be empty.)
> I am not exactly sure what the "best" option is. I certainly believe that
> the following should work (which is what I described above):
> <dependencyManagement>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>antlr</groupId>
> <artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
> <version>2.7.6</version>
> </dependency>
> </dependencyManagement>
> <build>
> <plugins>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
> <artifactId>antlr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
> <version>${antlrPluginVersion}</version>
> <dependencies>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>antlr</groupId>
> <artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
> </dependency>
> </dependencies>
> ...
> </plugin>
> </plugins>
> </build>
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