> -----Original Message----- > From: Ansgar Konermann [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 12:15 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Does the "versions" plugin deal with transitive references > to two different versions of an artifact? > > Am 28.10.2011 20:07 schrieb "KARR, DAVID" <[email protected]>: > > > > If I have a build with a lot of modules, and I end up with two > transitive > dependency references to "commons-lang", one for version 2.2, and one > for > version 2.4, does the "versions" plugin let me define rules that will > let me > choose either the older or newer version to actually use? > > The versions plugin deals with direct dependencies, not transitive > ones. > > > > > From the documentation, I would think that "versions:use-latest- > versions" > comes close, but the documentation is vague. It just says "Replaces > any > version with the latest version." > > Yes, but only those which are defined in the pom of your project, not > inside > the poms of dependencies referenced by your project. > > It just updates the text of the pom file, which cannot be done easily > with > released poms from some maven repository. After all, that's why we have > releases first hand: to count on the released artifacts as > unmodifiable. > > To manage transitive dependencies, enable dependency convergence using > maven-enforcer-plugin. You will be notified about version clashes > between > different versions of the same transitive dependency. To remove these > clashes, define <exclusions> for those transitive dependencies you > don't > want in your classpath.
Can you elaborate on this, please? As I've seen in many cases, the plugin documentation is very rudimentary. It looks to me like we would need to specify "enforcer:enforce", but how do I know what this is going to do? > > > > Does the "versions" plugin work with maven 3.x? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
