Mainly it's used by maven-scm-plugin and maven-release-plugin. Or any other plugin that uses this metadata. The POM is all about describing a project. This info/metadata can then be used by any plugin or tool. For instance, the scm info is also used by M2Eclipse if you want to checkout a project based on the scm info of a pom.xml.
/Anders On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:41, Rémy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > What is the purpose of the <scm> element defined in the pom.xml. I can't > understand its usefulness. > In Hudson, the link to the SCM is configured in the job. When I make a > release (maven-release-plugin), I feel that the plugin is based on > information contained in the workspace. > > http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#SCM http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#SCM > > Thank you. > > Remy > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/pom.xml-%3A-%3Cscm%3E-element-tp26775153p26775153.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
