My guess is there's a "corporate" repository set up with snapshots set to false. So his Maven install did not find the build extension until it was released. We won't know for sure until he provides more information.
Wayne On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: > Strange, you should file a ticket about this. Please provide a simple > project to reproduce the issue. > > /Anders (mobile) > Den 18 nov 2013 02:38 skrev "James Hutton" <[email protected]>: > >> Yeah, turns out I just needed to release it. For some reason maven wasn't >> downloading the build extension at all when it was a snapshot version. >> After making a release maven pulled down the artifact correctly without it >> being preloaded in my maven install or local repository. >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Russell Gold <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi James, >> > >> > There are some things I don’t understand about your scenario. You say you >> > “temporarily” have a maven build extension. What does that mean? Are you >> > currently using ant? And using ant tasks for maven to build the maven >> > portions? Or now using maven and having it call an old build tool? More >> > information would help us to help you. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Russ >> > >> > On Nov 15, 2013, at 1:31 PM, James Hutton <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > I have a project where I need to temporarily have a maven build >> extension >> > > (because we're migrating to maven) and did not know if there is any way >> > to >> > > get the maven extension artifact to automatically download. I have >> seen >> > > that if the artifact is in my local repository that it does not need to >> > be >> > > in my lib/ext folder but if it hasn't already been downloaded maven >> > throws >> > > an error that it can't find the artifact. Are there any options or >> > steps I >> > > can document that would prevent me from having to get the artifact >> > deployed >> > > into all of my maven installations or local repositories? I saw some >> > > documentation on the Eclipse Tycho project that they seem to believe it >> > > should automatically download, but it did not for me (I think there is >> a >> > > proxy issue). My extension is still in a snapshot state, could it be >> > that >> > > if I made a release it would automatically download? >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > James >> > >> > ----------------- >> > Author, Getting Started with Apache Maven < >> > http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-apache-maven/video> >> > >> > Come read my webnovel, Take a Lemon <http://www.takealemon.com>, >> > and listen to the Misfile radio play < >> > http://www.fuzzyfacetheater.com/misfile/>! >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
