Adding Classifiers when building

2014-07-08 Thread Fragoso, Ruben
Hello Everyone I would like to know if it is possible to add classifiers while building as a maven parameter, for example if I want to add the classifier dev to an artifact, when building. Thank you in Advance, hope to hear from you. Best Regards Ruben Fragoso

Re: Adding Classifiers when building

2014-07-08 Thread Stephen Connolly
though it is usually better to stick to the well known qualifiers: alpha, beta, rc, milestone, etc On 8 July 2014 09:35, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: Classifiers are not for what you think they are for... they are for flagging side artifacts... and in general they

Re: Adding Classifiers when building

2014-07-08 Thread Stephen Connolly
Classifiers are not for what you think they are for... they are for flagging side artifacts... and in general they should not be used. A good example of a case for side artifacts is the javadocs.jar. You normally do not depend on the javadocs jar, it is a side artifact for IDEs. If you want to

Re: Adding Classifiers when building

2014-07-08 Thread Jason van Zyl
This is a bad practice and runs counter to continuous delivery which is commonly accepted as a good thing. You always want to build in such a way that anything being built can be used as a release without any further transformation. On Jul 8, 2014, at 4:21 AM, Fragoso, Ruben

RE: Adding Classifiers when building

2014-07-08 Thread Fragoso, Ruben
Thank you Jason, Yes, this was feeling counter-intuitive, that is why I asking this. Thank you All Regards Ruben Fragoso -Original Message- From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:ja...@takari.io] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 2:48 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Adding Classifiers when