AFAIK, property expansion is not supported in the /project/parent/* nodes
-Stephen On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:13 AM, Stevo Slavić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Marvin, > > I'm experiencing similar issue with Maven in large multi-module projects, > especially if they are of >2 depth and one wants to apply same version to > several modules of same maven project. Currently I have to go through all > of > the pom's and set version manually, with risk of making a mistake or > incomplete change along the way. > > "Maven - The Definitive > Guide"<http://www.sonatype.com/book/pdf/maven-definitive-guide.pdf>states: > > *"When a project specifies a parent project, Maven uses that parent POM as > a > starting point before it reads the current project's POM. It inherits > everything, > including the groupId and version number."* > > It seems to me that this starting point processing is part of Maven's > "validate" lifecycle phase, and that command line properties are not used > in > code which resolves parent coordinates (artifactId, groupId, and version). > Maybe some of Maven developers or experts might confirm this and answer if > this is a bug or a design goal. > > Regards, > Stevo. > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Marvin Froeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm trying to do something like this: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <project> > > <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> > > > > <parent> > > <groupId>mygroup</groupId> > > <artifactId>myparentartifact</artifactId> > > <version>${version}</version> > > </parent> > > > > <artifactId>myartifact</artifactId> > > > > </project> > > > > and launch maven like this: > > mvn -Dversion=1.0 clean install > > > > To define parent version at runtime. > > > > But I always get: > > > > > > > > D:\flex\workspace\sonatype-flex-mojos\test-harness\src\test\resources\simple-flex-application>mvn > > > -Dversion=2.0M6-SNAPSHOT clean install > > > > > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > > > > > Downloading: > > > > > > http://192.168.1.3:8081/nexus/content/groups/all//info/flex-mojos/flex-super-pom/${version}/flex-super-pom-${version}.pom<http://192.168.1.3:8081/nexus/content/groups/all//info/flex-mojos/flex-super-pom/$%7Bversion%7D/flex-super-pom-$%7Bversion%7D.pom> > < > http://192.168.1.3:8081/nexus/content/groups/all//info/flex-mojos/flex-super-pom/$%7Bversion%7D/flex-super-pom-$%7Bversion%7D.pom > > > > < > > > http://192.168.1.3:8081/nexus/content/groups/all//info/flex-mojos/flex-super-pom/$%7Bversion%7D/flex-super-pom-$%7Bversion%7D.pom > > > > > > > > Downloading: > > > > > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/info/flex-mojos/flex-super-pom/${version}/flex-super-pom-${version}.pom<http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/info/flex-mojos/flex-super-pom/$%7Bversion%7D/flex-super-pom-$%7Bversion%7D.pom> > < > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/info/flex-mojos/flex-super-pom/$%7Bversion%7D/flex-super-pom-$%7Bversion%7D.pom > > > > < > > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/info/flex-mojos/flex-super-pom/$%7Bversion%7D/flex-super-pom-$%7Bversion%7D.pom > > > > > > > > [INFO] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > [ERROR] FATAL ERROR > > > > > [INFO] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact. > > > > > > > > GroupId: info.flex-mojos > > > > > ArtifactId: flex-super-pom > > > > > Version: ${version} > > > > > > > > Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository > > > > > > > > info.flex-mojos:flex-super-pom:pom:${version} > > > > > > > > from the specified remote repositories: > > > > > central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2), > > > > > local (http://192.168.1.3:8081/nexus/content/groups/all/) > > > > > > I'm doing that for integration tests. > > > > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? > > > > > > VELO > > >
