Re: Version ranges (was Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?)

2008-07-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 18-Jul-08, at 10:30 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: On 17-Jul-08, at 8:08 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: Michael McCallum wrote: why not just specify the dependencies with version ranges, if you do there is no need to rewrite anything it just works... My builds never use versi

Version ranges (was Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?)

2008-07-18 Thread Ralph Goers
Jason van Zyl wrote: On 17-Jul-08, at 8:08 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: Michael McCallum wrote: why not just specify the dependencies with version ranges, if you do there is no need to rewrite anything it just works... My builds never use version ranges. We require that builds be reproduceab

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 17-Jul-08, at 8:08 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: Michael McCallum wrote: why not just specify the dependencies with version ranges, if you do there is no need to rewrite anything it just works... My builds never use version ranges. We require that builds be reproduceable at any time in th

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:02 AM >> To: Maven Developers List >> Subject: Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo? >> >> Anyway, my question is how do I go about contributing this? >> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Stephen Connolly >> <[EM

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Oleg Gusakov
Ralph Goers wrote: Michael McCallum wrote: why not just specify the dependencies with version ranges, if you do there is no need to rewrite anything it just works... My builds never use version ranges. We require that builds be reproduceable at any time in the future. Version ranges d

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Ralph Goers
Michael McCallum wrote: why not just specify the dependencies with version ranges, if you do there is no need to rewrite anything it just works... My builds never use version ranges. We require that builds be reproduceable at any time in the future. Version ranges don't guarantee that.

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
; -Original Message- > From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:02 AM > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo? > > Anyway, my question is how do I go about contributing this? >

RE: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Brian E. Fox
You would attach it to a jira at the mojo.codehaus.org project and then try to get some mojo committer to pick it up. -Original Message- From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:02 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: How do I go about

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
Anyway, my question is how do I go about contributing this? On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Stephen Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one use case for this is when you have a suite of components and you > want to force _all_ of them to the same version. > > Perhaps you have several suites of

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
one use case for this is when you have a suite of components and you want to force _all_ of them to the same version. Perhaps you have several suites of components and you want to force all the components in each suite to the same versions across the suite. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Stephe

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
And then when you want to roll a release? Anyway, if that was the case why is it that most of the maven plugins themselves use this pattern? e.g. ${maven.version} Also you may want to force all one set of components to the same suite release... so blah-core may be only available at 1.3.5 while b

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Michael McCallum
why not just specify the dependencies with version ranges, if you do there is no need to rewrite anything it just works... On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:35:17 Stephen Connolly wrote: > > Oh... and if you want to prevent jumping too high in versions or too > low, it supports adding a version specificatio

Re: How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
Oh and -Dproperties=blah.version,foo.version will only do the update check for ${blah.version} and ${foo.version} On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Stephen Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have developed a plugin that makes keeping versions of related but > not quite tightly coupled in sync

How do I go about contributing a plugin to mojo?

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
I have developed a plugin that makes keeping versions of related but not quite tightly coupled in sync a lot easier. How do I go about contributing this to mojo? -Stephen FYI here's how it works... In your pom you probably have a property used to define the version in one place, for example: