I guess the dependency plugin can't really tell, as the filtering takes a value outside of the source file which could have changed since the last time the file was filtered. The price you pay for filtering I guess?
/Anders On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 18:02, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote: > The Maven resources plugin has a goal "copy-resources" which has a > configuration > parameter "overwrite". The default is "false" - meaning not to overwrite a > target file if not needed (if the target has a later date than the > source). > > This setting is ignored, however, if the file is being filtered. > > I'm using this to inject version info from the POM into a Java source file. > So > everytime this module is built, it always updates this file even though > nothing > (usually) has changed. > > Is there a better Maven way to do this? > > -Marshall > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >