You need Maven 3.0 to be able to activate profiles in the pom by properties set in a profile in settings.xml.
/Anders On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 01:44, Jörg Schaible <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon Paynter wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Jörg Schaible > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Hi Jon, > >> > >> > >> > what am I missing here? > >> > >> It does simply not work this way. You cannot activate a profile by a > >> property defined in the current or parent POM. Profiles are resolved > >> first to build the final POM in use. See help:effective-pom. > >> > >> - Jörg > >> > >> Well that explains the source of my confusion. I'll just find another > >> way > > to accomplish the same thing. > > You can set system properties calling Maven or define properties in your > settings.xml (IIRC). Those are respected for the profile activation. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
