Does this imply a rule 4) The parent should define properties for all of the dependency versions for the shared libraries that the children need?

Does this go in "dependency management" or simply as a set of properties that are passed on to the children?

Ron

On 03/05/2010 2:44 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:
What I've surmised from the various sources of maven thinking, is that

1) The<parent>  element should identify the parent using explicit (no
properties) values
2) The child project can then "inherit" from the parent the<groupId>
3) The child project should also define its version explicitly

The release plugin expects this and has code to adjust these values
inside the pom, as the release happens.  They go from x.y.z-SNAPSHOT to
x.y.z  (without the snapshot), to x.y.(z+1)-SNAPSHOT for the next
release snapshot (the last one is changeable, to correspond to your
release numbering - see the documentation for the release plugin).

The point of all that is that the tooling tries to take care of
mass-updating these "fixed" version numbers.  This might reduce the
motivation of using substitutable property names (that is, if the
motivation was to have one spot to update, and have that update
"propagated" to the other poms).

-Marshall Schor

On 5/3/2010 12:37 PM, Frank Maritato wrote:
Hi,

I have a multi module project and in my top level pom I am using a
property to define the version number like this:

<version>${myproject.version}</version>

<properties>
   <myproject.version>0.1</myproject.version>
</properties>

All my submodules inherit from this pom and all define<version>  the
same way. Within the context of this project it all works and
everything is cool. The problem I have is when I try to import one of
these libraries into another project I get an error that it can't
resolve the parent of my dependency because it isn't resolving that
property value.
When I look in my .m2/repository directory at the pom for that project
it still has the unresolved ${myproject.version} string in there. I
have tried defining that property in the other project that is
importing that dependency but it still doesn't work.

Is this not the way we should define our project? Should we just use
explicit version numbers in our pom's?

--
Frank Maritato

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