On 17 Apr 2013, at 7:34 PM, Russell Gold <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why does the normal release process require both release:prepare and then 
> release:perform? Under what conditions would you choose not to do the perform 
> step after a successful prepare step? Why do both generate source and javadoc 
> jars and prompt for the PGP pass phrase?

The perform might require a special build environment, or you might perform 
many different releases (example unix, windows) from the same prepared source.

If prepare and perform were welded together, this would become impossible.

Regards,
Graham
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