About once a month I go in and delete all the timestamped snapshots from
the previous month.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:04 PM
> To: STRAYER, JON (SBCSI)
> Cc: Maven Users List
> Subject: Re: Snapshot etiquette
> 
> 
> With this approach when do you clean up the timestamped snapshots?
> 
> -Bert
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:40:04 -0500, STRAYER, JON (SBCSI) 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Ok, so I'm trying to get a handle on the "right" way to 
> do snapshot 
> > > dependencies during development and the perform a "release."  In 
> > > reading around the Internet it looks like there are two different 
> > > approaches to snapshots..
> > >
> > > Approach 1:
> > >
> > > In your POM define your version as "SNAPSHOT", and use 
> jar:deploy to 
> > > put your artifact myproj-SNAPSHOT.jar out on the repository.
> > >
> > > When it comes time to release then you change your 
> version to your 
> > > "real" version and then run that one build as your 
> release build and 
> > > put myproj-1.0.jar out on the repository.
> > >
> > > Approach 2:
> > >
> > > In your POM define your version as the real version that is 
> > > currently in development but use jar:deploy-snapshot to put the 
> > > artifact in the repository (it also puts a timestamped 
> version there 
> > > as well).
> > >
> > > When it comes time to release then you use jar:deploy for that 
> > > "release build".
> > >
> > > Do I have these two approaches right?  Which one is the 
> "right" one? 
> > > Is there a best practice documented somewhere?
> > 
> > I use #2, but I don't have the status to claim it's the 
> right method.
> > 
> >
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