Re: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-08 Thread Stephen Connolly
, Peter [mailto:peter.ha...@fmr.com] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:12 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: LATEST and RELEASE release version management Graham Leggett wrote: Having said that, it makes no sense to have the release plugin care about LATEST, because by definition, building

RE: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-08 Thread Hayes, Peter
within metadata and leveraged by containers such as OSGI. Pete -Original Message- From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:16 AM To: Maven Users List Cc: Maven Users List Subject: Re: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

Re: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-08 Thread Tim
PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: LATEST and RELEASE release version management Graham Leggett wrote: Having said that, it makes no sense to have the release plugin care about LATEST, because by definition, building against LATEST isn't repeatable, and in order

Re: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-07 Thread Tim
the validation build and tag is the only sane way to use them. I currently have never use them because they aren't repeatable. From: Hayes, Peter [mailto:peter.ha...@fmr.com] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:12 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-06 Thread Hayes, Peter
We use Maven in an enterprise environment and internally we are required to execute release builds whenever we want to install to our testing environment. We have found that executing many release builds can be tedious when we have in-development snapshot dependencies that also have to be

Re: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-06 Thread Graham Leggett
Hayes, Peter wrote: We use Maven in an enterprise environment and internally we are required to execute release builds whenever we want to install to our testing environment. We have found that executing many release builds can be tedious when we have in-development snapshot dependencies

RE: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-06 Thread Hayes, Peter
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Re: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-06 Thread Stephen Connolly
the release plugin care about LATEST, because by definition, building against LATEST isn't repeatable, and in order for there to be a release, you need the build to be repeatable. I think this does impact the release plugin as it could offer the ability to resolve the LATEST version at release

RE: LATEST and RELEASE release version management

2009-04-06 Thread Brian E. Fox
To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: LATEST and RELEASE release version management Graham Leggett wrote: Having said that, it makes no sense to have the release plugin care about LATEST, because by definition, building against LATEST isn't repeatable, and in order for there to be a release, you need

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-12-03 Thread Baptiste MATHUS
I guess this could be related, but we almost never use install. Actually, for the LATEST use case, we just commit and have a continuous integration serverthat will just push the resulting artifact to the corporate maven repository (and it will usually be downloaded some minutes after thanks to m2e

RE: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-12-02 Thread Timothy Reilly
Just an observation from today when RELEASE didn't work for us. I was at someone's desk who normally build's the parent pom we are trying to reference as RELEASE. His last build of the pom or perhaps every build to his local repository is done without mvn install -DupdateReleaseInfo=true (so

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-24 Thread Jeff MAURY
to store this information and this is only possible through the maven plugin plugin. Regards Jeff MAURY On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Timothy Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff MAURY
to store this information and this is only possible through the maven plugin plugin. Regards Jeff MAURY On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Timothy Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were supported versions that could be used

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-23 Thread Baptiste MATHUS
, not for standards artifacts, because the artifact metadata needs to store this information and this is only possible through the maven plugin plugin. Regards Jeff MAURY On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Timothy Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I these two keywords LATEST

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff MAURY
through the maven plugin plugin. Regards Jeff MAURY On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Timothy Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were supported versions that could be used in a pom.xml. Does anyone know

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-23 Thread Baptiste MATHUS
needs to store this information and this is only possible through the maven plugin plugin. Regards Jeff MAURY On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Timothy Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-22 Thread Baptiste MATHUS
I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were supported versions that could be used in a pom.xml. Does anyone know more about them, an I mistaken? -- La mélancolie c'est communiste Tout le monde y a droit de temps en temps La mélancolie n'est pas capitaliste C'est même gratuit pour

LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-21 Thread Timothy Reilly
I thought I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were supported versions that could be used in a pom.xml. Does anyone know more about them, an I mistaken?

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-21 Thread Wayne Fay
I thought I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were supported versions that could be used in a pom.xml. 9.3.1.3. LATEST and RELEASE Versions http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/reference/pom-relationships.html#d0e9801 Wayne

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-21 Thread Jeff MAURY
artifacts, because the artifact metadata needs to store this information and this is only possible through the maven plugin plugin. Regards Jeff MAURY On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Timothy Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I thought I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were supported

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-21 Thread Jeff MAURY
In my opinion, this chapter is bogus Jeff MAURY On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Wayne Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I these two keywords LATEST and RELEASE were supported versions that could be used in a pom.xml. 9.3.1.3. LATEST and RELEASE Versions http://books.sonatype.com

RE: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-21 Thread Timothy Reilly
Jeff, From my experience, using RELEASE as a version identifier works for any kinds of artifacts given the fact that you should have install or deployed the artifact using the parameter updateReleaseInfo to true. Thanks. That's very helpful! I was about to complain it does not work - but

Re: LATEST and RELEASE

2008-11-21 Thread Jeff MAURY
If you intent to use it for you corporate parent pom, I think this should work assumed you deploy or install it using the updateReleaseInfo to true and refer the corporate parent pom using the RELEASE version. Regards Jeff MAURY On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Timothy Reilly [EMAIL