Hello,
I've just started using Maven over the last couple of days, and I must say, my first
impressions are very positive (I'm used to dealing with lots of nearly-identical Ant
scripts!). Thanks.
I've been trying to use property inheritance, and I gathered from the mailing list
archive that project.properties & build.properties aren't inherited. I tried to get
round this by creating a global.properties file and manually loading the properties
from it in my base maven.xml:
<jelly-core:set var="project.root"
value="${pom.parentBasedir().getParentFile().getCanonicalFile()}"/>
<jelly-util:properties file="${project.root}/etc/global.properties"/>
In global.properties I have:
maven.repo.local=/usr/local/data/maven/repository
I then have a sub-project which inherits from this base. If I run, say "maven jar" on
the sub-project and dump the value of maven.repo.local to the console from the
sub-project's maven.xml, I find it has the desired value (from global.properties).
However, Maven is still actually using the default repository
(/home/<user>/.maven/repository to do the build) - e.g. if I delete this dir, Maven
creates it and starts downloading all the jars again.
Is there a way round this problem?
Thanks,
Al.
