I posted a short blog on the subject [http://tinyurl.com/c7m8qv], and in
addition to that - I argue that LATEST and RELEASE are bad. What do you
think?
Extract:
Let me first be clear about virtual versions as a whole: they are an
excellent source of hard-to-find build
Hi Oleg,
I just worked with a company converting 130+ projects from Ant to Maven. LATEST
and RELEASE were invaluable.
I do think there needs to be more thought around when they're allowed. No
artifact's release pom should contain SNAPSHOT, LATEST or RELEASE anywhere.
The later 2 should be
Timothy Reilly wrote:
Hi Oleg,
I just worked with a company converting 130+ projects from Ant to Maven. LATEST and RELEASE were invaluable.
I do think there needs to be more thought around when they're allowed. No artifact's release pom should contain SNAPSHOT, LATEST or RELEASE anywhere.
how often do you really change the enterprise pom though?
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:24:25 Timothy Reilly wrote:
Hi Oleg,
I just worked with a company converting 130+ projects from Ant to Maven.
LATEST and RELEASE were invaluable.
I do think there needs to be more thought around when
too often
hence the itch that had me write versions-maven-plugin and the
update-parent goal
On 17/03/2009, Michael McCallum gho...@apache.org wrote:
how often do you really change the enterprise pom though?
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:24:25 Timothy Reilly wrote:
Hi Oleg,
I just worked with a
Timothy Reilly wrote:
Hi Oleg,
I just worked with a company converting 130+ projects from Ant to Maven.
LATEST and RELEASE were invaluable.
I do think there needs to be more thought around when they're allowed. No
artifact's release pom should contain SNAPSHOT, LATEST or RELEASE
too often
hence the itch that had me write versions-maven-plugin and the
update-parent goal
On 17/03/2009, Michael McCallum gho...@apache.org wrote:
how often do you really change the enterprise pom though?
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:24:25 Timothy Reilly wrote:
Hi Oleg,
I just worked with a
do you know what breaks - an incompatible plugin or your unit test?
This is even bigger question if you use virtual versions for expressing
regular dependencies, not just plugins.
Re-creating past releases and dependency trees it's a
different story though.
It's a lot to ask a build and deploy
