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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Lacoste, Dana (TSG Software San Diego) <[email protected]> wrote: > This came up not three weeks ago. > > What most of us do to get around this is to use something else > to modify the pom.xml content before running maven. > > Personally, I use ant and xmltask. > > Why is it happening in an 'official' pom? Because almost EVERY > user has a problem with this and we're all suffering, so I'm not > surprised that someone 'official' ran into it as well. > > So I can see at least two possibilities: > 1 - maven really IS expanding properties in the parent, for some > version of maven as used by the derby developers > > 2 - the "unmodified" pom got published with derby, rather than > the one that had been modified before maven was run. > > Either way, in my opinion it's definitely the single most > annoying thing with maven: the "<version>" field is interpreted > in different ways for every instance (sometimes it allows > variables, sometimes it doesn't: sometimes it allows ranges, > sometimes it doesn't, etc.) > > Dana Lacoste > > -----Original Message----- > From: Albert Kurucz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:58 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Pom Parent Version Properties > > Is property substitution really forbidden in > /project/parent/(groupId|artifactId|version)? > If yes, how is it possible to see that on this Maven Central project? > http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/derby/derby/10.5.3.0/derby-10.5.3.0.pom > > Is property substitution really forbidden in > /project/(groupId|artifactId|version)? > If yes, how is it possible to see that on this Maven Central project? > http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/derby/derby-project/10.5.3.0/derby-project-10.5.3.0.pom > > Project's POM files may not getting verified for this criteria by the > maintainer of Maven Central? > Too bad! > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
