Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-11 Thread Carsten Ziegeler

Ralph Goers wrote:
I thought about this some more. How about if a) to enable this feature 
you put a variable as the version, b) the variable is replaced by its 
definition c) if it isn't defined then go to the relativePath and get 
the version from there, c) if this fails throw an exception.


I believe this won't cause any problems since variables aren't currently 
supported. It is also what people have asked for in the Jira issue.
Sounds like  too much magic for me - but as we're talking about maven, 
well, adding more magic to too much magic shouldn't hurt... :)


Carsten
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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-07 Thread Carsten Ziegeler

Ralph Goers wrote:

It uses the relative path so you will need the parent also.

Hmm, I'm not sure if this is a good idea :) as it permits building a 
module standalone.
For Cocoon we have the dream (tm) to have separate buildable/deployable 
modules one day.


Carsten

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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-07 Thread Ralph Goers



Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Ralph Goers wrote:

It uses the relative path so you will need the parent also.

Hmm, I'm not sure if this is a good idea :) as it permits building a 
module standalone.
For Cocoon we have the dream (tm) to have separate 
buildable/deployable modules one day.


Carsten


If you can think of a way to have it both ways let me know.

In the Maven issue (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624) the 
suggestion was made to use a variable. I'm not a big fan of that if it 
requires the variable always be set via -D or in the users settings.xml. 
Too much room to get it wrong. Using the version in the pom at the 
relative path you are sure to always get it right.


The way my patch is right now if you specified MavenParentVersion as the 
version and it couldn't find the parent pom an exception would get 
thrown more or less as if a version wasn't specified. I suppose instead 
of throwing the exception it could try to find the pom some other way, 
but what?


I have a feeling that if the way Cocoon's blocks parent pom was changed 
than what I'm suggesting would be easy. If the parent pom was in 
cocoon-blocks-parent instead of being the aggregation pom this would be 
a lot easier to deal with as you would only need the Cocoon parent 
project and the block parent project to create your block.


Ralph


Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-07 Thread Carsten Ziegeler

Ralph Goers wrote:



Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Ralph Goers wrote:

It uses the relative path so you will need the parent also.

Hmm, I'm not sure if this is a good idea :) as it permits building a 
module standalone.
For Cocoon we have the dream (tm) to have separate 
buildable/deployable modules one day.


Carsten


If you can think of a way to have it both ways let me know.


You could look into the local repo and use the latest version from there
or you can even go to a remote repo and use the latest version from there.
I think/hope that the maven api allows you to do this.

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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-07 Thread Ralph Goers



Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Ralph Goers wrote:



Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Ralph Goers wrote:

It uses the relative path so you will need the parent also.

Hmm, I'm not sure if this is a good idea :) as it permits building a 
module standalone.
For Cocoon we have the dream (tm) to have separate 
buildable/deployable modules one day.


Carsten


If you can think of a way to have it both ways let me know.


You could look into the local repo and use the latest version from there
or you can even go to a remote repo and use the latest version from 
there.

I think/hope that the maven api allows you to do this.
I'm not sure if there is an existing way of doing that. Even if there 
is, I'm not sure if that is a great idea. What if what is in your local 
repo is really old?


Ralph



Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-07 Thread Ralph Goers

Ralph Goers wrote:



Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Ralph Goers wrote:



Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Ralph Goers wrote:

It uses the relative path so you will need the parent also.

Hmm, I'm not sure if this is a good idea :) as it permits building 
a module standalone.
For Cocoon we have the dream (tm) to have separate 
buildable/deployable modules one day.


Carsten


If you can think of a way to have it both ways let me know.


You could look into the local repo and use the latest version from there
or you can even go to a remote repo and use the latest version from 
there.

I think/hope that the maven api allows you to do this.
I'm not sure if there is an existing way of doing that. Even if there 
is, I'm not sure if that is a great idea. What if what is in your 
local repo is really old?
I thought about this some more. How about if a) to enable this feature 
you put a variable as the version, b) the variable is replaced by its 
definition c) if it isn't defined then go to the relativePath and get 
the version from there, c) if this fails throw an exception.


I believe this won't cause any problems since variables aren't currently 
supported. It is also what people have asked for in the Jira issue.


Ralph


Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Reinhard Pötz

Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:

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Author: reinhard
Date: Tue Aug  5 12:42:45 2008
New Revision: 682901

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=682901view=rev
Log:
back in snapshot mode

Modified:
cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml

Modified: cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml?rev=682901r1=682900r2=682901view=diff 

== 


--- cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml (original)
+++ cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml Tue Aug  5 12:42:45 2008
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   parent
 groupIdorg.apache.cocoon/groupId
 artifactIdcocoon/artifactId
-version7/version
+version5-SNAPSHOT/version
 relativePath../parent/relativePath


Development version is lower than released one. Is it intended?


yes, I was too lazy to touch nearly every POM file in our repository 
just to increase the version number of our parent POMs. I haven't done 
this for the last release either and AFAICT, no problem occurred.


Does anybody know if it can cause problems if the development version 
number isn't increased after a release?


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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Grzegorz Kossakowski

Reinhard Pötz pisze:


yes, I was too lazy to touch nearly every POM file in our repository 
just to increase the version number of our parent POMs. I haven't done 
this for the last release either and AFAICT, no problem occurred.


Hmmm, find, xargs and sed should do this work within one minute. :-)

Does anybody know if it can cause problems if the development version 
number isn't increased after a release?


I would say that it's at least confusing. So how does this work now? We have a new version of parent 
pom but we reference to the old one. Which version is chosen finally?


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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Felix Knecht

Reinhard Pötz schrieb:

Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze:

Author: reinhard
Date: Tue Aug  5 12:42:45 2008
New Revision: 682901

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=682901view=rev
Log:
back in snapshot mode

Modified:
cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml

Modified: cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml?rev=682901r1=682900r2=682901view=diff 

== 


--- cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml (original)
+++ cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml Tue Aug  5 12:42:45 2008
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   parent
 groupIdorg.apache.cocoon/groupId
 artifactIdcocoon/artifactId
-version7/version
+version5-SNAPSHOT/version
 relativePath../parent/relativePath


Development version is lower than released one. Is it intended?


yes, I was too lazy to touch nearly every POM file in our repository 
just to increase the version number of our parent POMs. I haven't done 
this for the last release either and AFAICT, no problem occurred.


Does anybody know if it can cause problems if the development version 
number isn't increased after a release?


At least I find it intuitive for the one releasing the next version when 
he can rely on the snapshot version than doing a search in the maven 
remote repository to find the next version number for a release.


Just my 0.02 CHF


Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Carsten Ziegeler

Reinhard Pötz wrote:


yes, I was too lazy to touch nearly every POM file in our repository 
just to increase the version number of our parent POMs. I haven't done 
this for the last release either and AFAICT, no problem occurred.


Does anybody know if it can cause problems if the development version 
number isn't increased after a release?


I think we shouldn't change the version number just for the sake of 
changing it.

If the pom doesn't change why should we increase the version number?

I think we should simply drop the parent relationship from all modules 
and use the current parent poms just as reactor poms. Every real module 
pom directly has our root pom as the parent. This makes releasing imho 
much easier as there is no release of any intermediate pom required 
anymore. We're using this approach for a very long time now and it has 
made things much easier.


Carsten
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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Reinhard Pötz

Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Reinhard Pötz wrote:


yes, I was too lazy to touch nearly every POM file in our repository 
just to increase the version number of our parent POMs. I haven't done 
this for the last release either and AFAICT, no problem occurred.


Does anybody know if it can cause problems if the development version 
number isn't increased after a release?


I think we shouldn't change the version number just for the sake of 
changing it.


I was releasing cocoon-parent because I wanted to use the latest 
versions of some plugins and some dependencies (e.g. Spring).



If the pom doesn't change why should we increase the version number?


sure, in that case there is no need

I think we should simply drop the parent relationship from all modules 
and use the current parent poms just as reactor poms. Every real module 
pom directly has our root pom as the parent. This makes releasing imho 
much easier as there is no release of any intermediate pom required 
anymore. We're using this approach for a very long time now and it has 
made things much easier.


+1, exept for cocoon-core-modules because this allows a release of all 
of our core modules in one go (multi-module release).


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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Carsten Ziegeler

Reinhard Pötz wrote:


I was releasing cocoon-parent because I wanted to use the latest 
versions of some plugins and some dependencies (e.g. Spring).


Ah yes, ok - Personally I would not change the references of all modules 
to the latest snapshot of the parent pom after a release. The modules 
should be indepedent.


Now comes the problematic part: As soon as you end up with two modules 
referencing different parent pom with a dependency management, and let's 
say the older parent pom references a lib or plugin in version X while 
the newer parent pom references the same lib or plugin in a different 
version Y, all modules are build with one or the other version in a 
multi project build. Which version is used for the whole build depends 
on the order how maven reads the poms (and it seems that this order is 
not deterministic as we had problems on some machines while it worked on 
others because of a different order). And obviously if just one version 
is used for the whole build this might cause build problems - which look 
very strange as all your poms are correct!


Ok, long story, because of this maven bug (or is it by design?) it's 
much safer to make a search/replace after releasing the parent pom and 
update *all* modules to the new trunk version. Or, which is the slightly 
better but more difficult option, do this after you apply the first 
change to the parent pom after a release.


Carsten

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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Reinhard Pötz

Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:

Reinhard Pötz pisze:


yes, I was too lazy to touch nearly every POM file in our repository 
just to increase the version number of our parent POMs. I haven't done 
this for the last release either and AFAICT, no problem occurred.


Hmmm, find, xargs and sed should do this work within one minute. :-)


it's a bit more difficult but in general yes.

Actually we already have such a script (tools/pom-updater) but still I 
always managed to break the build.


Does anybody know if it can cause problems if the development version 
number isn't increased after a release?


I would say that it's at least confusing. So how does this work now? We 
have a new version of parent pom but we reference to the old one. Which 
version is chosen finally?


All our POMs in snapshot mode refer to the (not-changing) cocoon-parent POM.

After writing this I see the potential problem: If we want to use some 
of our own modules in their released versions, they would pull in the 
released cocoon-parent POM. This could lead to some unwanted side-effects.


This means that if we want to use released versions of our own modules, 
we have to increase the version number of cocoon-parent and should 
follow Carsten's proposal and remove all intermediary POMs 
(tools-modules, blocks-modules) except core-modules.


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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Ralph Goers



Reinhard Pötz wrote:

Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze:

Author: reinhard
Date: Tue Aug  5 12:42:45 2008
New Revision: 682901

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=682901view=rev
Log:
back in snapshot mode

Modified:
cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml

Modified: cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml?rev=682901r1=682900r2=682901view=diff 

== 


--- cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml (original)
+++ cocoon/trunk/tools/pom.xml Tue Aug  5 12:42:45 2008
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   parent
 groupIdorg.apache.cocoon/groupId
 artifactIdcocoon/artifactId
-version7/version
+version5-SNAPSHOT/version
 relativePath../parent/relativePath


Development version is lower than released one. Is it intended?


yes, I was too lazy to touch nearly every POM file in our repository 
just to increase the version number of our parent POMs. I haven't done 
this for the last release either and AFAICT, no problem occurred.


Does anybody know if it can cause problems if the development version 
number isn't increased after a release?
I'm actually working on a fix to maven for this at the moment. It would 
allow you to put versionMAVEN_PARENT_VERSION/version in the pom 
instead of an actual version number. Don't get your hopes up though. 
I've been working on this for the last few weeks in the precious little 
available time I have right now. The thing that makes it difficult is 
that when your pom gets installed or deployed it has to have a real 
version number in it.


Ralph


Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Carsten Ziegeler

Ralph Goers wrote
I'm actually working on a fix to maven for this at the moment. It would 
allow you to put versionMAVEN_PARENT_VERSION/version in the pom 
instead of an actual version number. Don't get your hopes up though. 
I've been working on this for the last few weeks in the precious little 
available time I have right now. The thing that makes it difficult is 
that when your pom gets installed or deployed it has to have a real 
version number in it.
And how does this work, if you just check out a single module instead of 
the whole tree?


Carsten

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Re: Is it necessary to increase the development version number (SNAPSHOT) after a release?

2008-08-06 Thread Ralph Goers

It uses the relative path so you will need the parent also.

Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

Ralph Goers wrote
I'm actually working on a fix to maven for this at the moment. It 
would allow you to put versionMAVEN_PARENT_VERSION/version in the 
pom instead of an actual version number. Don't get your hopes up 
though. I've been working on this for the last few weeks in the 
precious little available time I have right now. The thing that makes 
it difficult is that when your pom gets installed or deployed it has 
to have a real version number in it.
And how does this work, if you just check out a single module instead 
of the whole tree?


Carsten