Sounds like you might be better served by writing your own plugin to do the
filtering, that way you can take the timestamps into consideration.
Also I hope you are putting the filtered java source into a sub-folder of
${basedir}/target
-Stephen
On 8 December 2010 22:49, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/8/2010 4:40 PM, Anders Hammar wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I was wondering (since I know the "source" of the filtered values) if there
> was
> a Maven-way of telling it this information?
>
> Something like being able to declare: file xyz depends on files abc and
> def, so
> if abc and def are both older than xyz, don't bother updating xyz.
>
> -Marshall Schor
> > /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
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