Sounds like you might want to look into classifiers -- then your
artifacts would use <classifier>website1</classifier> and the naming
of the files etc would indicate which website the code was for, but it
would all go into the same Maven2 repo.

Wayne

On 11/13/07, Nigel Magnay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure, but by doing that you're effectively trying to dodge the bullet of
> having correct versions for artifacts, which isn't really what m2 is
> designed to do.
> It's quite common to have 'unversioned' 3rd party jars. Best solution is to
> version them yourself, and deploy them somewhere locally - either
> (minimally) an HTTP server (such as SVN itself), or into an artifact
> repository such as proximity, archiva or artifactory.
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 2:54 PM, Christian Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "messing with maven versioning"
> >
> > since what I basicly want is to have different local repositories for
> > different projects without having to create a settings.xml for each
> > project..
> >
> > that would take care of our immediate problem and in time we could start
> > using maven everywhere and also get some 3rd party providers to start
> > doing versioning of jar files.. (which they don't today)
> >
> >
> > Nigel Magnay skrev:
> > > I'd really (really really) try not to mess with the maven versioning -
> > it's
> > > a recipe for having to custom write loads of stuff, and it really is
> > pretty
> > > fundamental to the operation of maven. Without it, I'm not sure there's
> > much
> > > reason to change if it's currently working...
> > > That said... Is there some reason the JARs *can't* have a version (I.E.
> > why
> > > can't you create 4 website projects with the dependencies of the JARs
> > set to
> > > particular versions)?
> > >
> > >  You can always write a custom script or MOJO (ANT or GROOVY) to move
> > things
> > > about during the build (including the repository) - perhaps that's a way
> > > forward?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Nov 13, 2007 2:31 PM, Christian Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> quick recap..
> > >>
> > >> Hi there,  first some history  :-)
> > >> I'm currently using maven 1.0.3 (yes, I know it is old, but it works
> > for
> > >> me) and we are currently switching from cvs to subversion. Along with
> > >> this switch from cvs to subversion we are also going to try to switch
> > >> from  our old maven to maven 2 (2.0.7)
> > >>
> > >> We are developing web applications that share many of our projects
> > >> and we have several installed out at the customers, unfourtunally due
> > to
> > >>  our own laziness and some reasons from the customers, they are not
> > >> always updated at the same time to a newer version..
> > >>
> > >> so, what we have is then something like this (example)
> > >>
> > >> website1  using v1 of all jar files
> > >> website2  using v1.02 of some jar files and v1 of the rest
> > >> website3  using v1.1 of some jar files and v1 of the rest
> > >> website4  using v1.02 of some jar files and v1 of the rest
> > >>
> > >> this is no problem since different versions can be stored in the
> > >> repository at the same time..
> > >>
> > >> however some external dependencies and unfourtunally some of our own,
> > do
> > >> not have version information, or are still in V1 even though there are
> > >> differences between 2 sites..
> > >>
> > >> when developing for the different sites we checked out the different
> > >> branches (source code) from cvs into dedicated folders..
> > >>
> > >> for example
> > >>
> > >> branches/website1/projects/.... (all projects)
> > >> branches/website2/projects/.... (all projects)
> > >> branches/website3/projects/.... (all projects)
> > >> branches/website4/projects/.... (all projects)
> > >>
> > >> and to be able to support our unversioned jar files (or different jar
> > >> files with the same version number) we simple put the repository for
> > >> each website inside the directory for the website (using the
> > >> MAVEN_HOME_LOCAL and MAVEN_HOME_USER so that we could have per site
> > >> repositories and settings.
> > >>
> > >> branches/website1/repository/...
> > >> branches/website2/repository/....
> > >> branches/website3/repository/....
> > >> branches/website4/repository/....
> > >>
> > >> now after such long description here is my question..
> > >>
> > >> from what I have learned about maven 2 there is no such environment
> > >> variables that I can set and maven2 reads only settings from 3
> > different
> > >> places?  the global settings, the settings in the users home directory
> > >> and the settings for the project.. that means I cannot create a per
> > >> "site" settings.xml with the localRepository set to a specific
> > directory ?
> > >>
> > >> I can probably create a settings.xml file per project but that means
> > >> many files in many places that needs to be set up, and if one of them
> > is
> > >> wrong......
> > >>
> > >> I tried creating a settings.xml for the parent (pom) project but that
> > >> did not look like it was working (still using
> > /home/user/.m2/repository)
> > >>
> > >> can this be done, or are there better ways  to do this (yes versioning
> > >> all files would be best, but that is not a realistic option at the
> > >> moment..
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
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> > >>
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