Hi,
mvn help:effective-pom (for example) fails with Maven 3 because of
this in most stanbol POMs:
<parent>
<groupId>org.apache.stanbol</groupId>
<artifactId>stanbol-parent</artifactId>
<version>${stanbol-version}</version>
<relativePath>parent</relativePath>
</parent>
And stanbol-version is defined in the parent pom, creating a
chicken-and-egg problem.
For some reason Maven 2 accepts that, but I think it's wrong anyway,
version numbers should be constants in general, and especially when
pointing to the parent pom. I think variable version numbers will
cause problems with the Maven release plugin, at least.
Can we change to constants for version numbers, or what was the idea
behind this?
-Bertrand
(workaround is to add -Dstanbol-version=0.9-SNAPSHOT to the mvn
command line in the meantime)
