Different files (contents) with the same name is just a recipe for disaster.
Wayne On 11/13/07, Christian Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how does that solve the problem where I got 3:rd party jar files name > for example project.jar which contains different versions depending on > my website? > > > > Wayne Fay skrev: > > 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.. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Christian Andersson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> > >>>>> Configuration and Collaboration for OpenOffice.org > >>>>> Open Framework Systems AS http://www.ofs.no > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> > >>> -- > >>> Christian Andersson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> Configuration and Collaboration for OpenOffice.org > >>> Open Framework Systems AS http://www.ofs.no > >>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Christian Andersson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Configuration and Collaboration for OpenOffice.org > Open Framework Systems AS http://www.ofs.no > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
