Have you taken a look at the Maven Release Plugin? It seems to do exactly what you want.
In short: 1) Update the version in your pom to a stable version 2) Check in updated pom(s). 3) Label/tag the SCM with your current revision 4) Change the version in your pom to the next unstable version 5) Check in Voila, stable label and ready for next release. Hth, Nick Stolwijk ~~~ Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best ~~~ Lord Baden-Powell On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com > wrote: > How are you using SNAPSHOTs and releases? > How do they relate to versions in the SCM? > > Is your problem only around releases? > > Why do you not have a stable release number? > Can you not do tagging in your SCM to identify the SCM version of the > release? > > There seems to be something missing from your explanation. > Your audit and traceability requirements seem to be pretty normal and > usually maven follows a pretty acceptable set of practices. > > Maybe you should share a few more of the factors that makes your situation > so unusual. > > Ron > > > > On 12/02/2013 12:21 PM, Patrick Haggerty wrote: > >> Just wondering if it can be done. Are locked into using only "pom.xml"? >> Let's say I make a label on my application and I build that application >> based on that label. >> I still need to modify the POM file to set the version. I do not want to >> change files that have been labeled. Is my understanding wrong? >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Wayne Fay <wayne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> How can I use a different name like "pom.company.xml" instead of >>>> >>> "pom.xml"? >>> >>> For all intents and purposes, you cannot. Why do you want to do this? >>> >>> Wayne >>> >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> --------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> users-unsubscribe@maven.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: rwhee...@artifact-software.com > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@maven.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
