Well I knew I'd written something on that topic... but re-reading I am surprised at how much information I managed to cram in there without it feeling over dense (for me)
BTW I am of the *never deploy -SNAPSHOTs* camp but I recognise that there are other people out there... and I have to interact with them some times and that post is helpful to explain things to them! On 3 November 2014 01:57, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 October 2014 20:18, Stephen Connolly < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > http://developer-blog.cloudbees.com/2012/12/should-you-deploy-snapshots.html > > > Thanks for writing that up! > I'll remember to point people there instead of having to remember > half-baked stuff and type :) > > This is a useful piece of advice > "especially in conjunction with the Versions Maven Plugin > <http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/lock-snapshots-mojo.html> > which > has goals for “locking” and “unlocking” your -SNAPSHOT dependencies to the > current timestamp version, thereby removing uncertainty. " > It will allow you to live dangerously on shifting sands and then when you > get sucked under to go back and lock to a working version. > But I still think you are better off avoiding that problem in the first > place. >
