Well, usually, all the related-by-aggregation submodules have the same
version, so ${project.version} works in the dependencies.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Justin Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't doubt it.  and for external deps, i'm all for it.  but for
> intra-project dependencies, it's a huge deficiency regardless of best
> practice status or not.  But if that's the best that maven can do right now
> then that's what i'll have to deal with.  I'd rather hard code those version
> numbers throughout, though, and let the release plugin update them when it
> runs.  That beats maintaining a separate list of modules in the root pom.
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Kalle Korhonen
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> That's the best practice. Read about it if you don't believe me.
>>
>> Kalle
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Justin Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I thought about that (and I plan on moving all our deps to that -- the
>> > current set up is a mess) but it seems a bit of an antipattern to have to
>> > specify intra-project dependencies like that.  Seems overly redundant.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Kalle Korhonen
>> > <[email protected]>wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Justin Lee <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> > I'm working on making the grizzly deployments actually work with maven
>> >> > [INFO] The version could not be updated: ${grizzly-version}
>> >> > The problem, it seems, is that we use the property grizzly-version
>> >> defined
>> >> > in the root pom (
>> >> https://grizzly.dev.java.net/svn/grizzly/trunk/code/pom.xml)
>> >> > to specify the intermodule dependencies.  Now, I've seen poms that
>> don't
>> >> > specify the module versions in the deps but when I try that, the pom
>> >> fails
>> >> > to validate.  So I guess I have two questions:
>> >> >   1. Can we not use the property for the dependency version number
>> like
>> >> >   that?  Do we need to hard code the project version?
>> >> >   2. How can we eliminate that version entry from the dependency
>> >> >   altogether?  That'd be the simplest way, i think, if it works that
>> way.
>> >>
>> >> Use dependency management section of the parent pom to specify
>> >> versions for the child modules. Then don't explicitly specify versions
>> >> when referring to any of your own dependencies. You don't have to
>> >> hard-code versions in the parent pom for each separately, you can use
>> >> properties. You should always use snapshot version when specifying
>> >> version for your own modules in development. The release plugin
>> >> handles updating the versions from snapshot to release and back. For
>> >> example, see various other projects using Maven, such as
>> >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shiro/trunk/pom.xml
>> >>
>> >> Kalle
>> >>
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