For us we use it to ensure that the war file in target is always the same, so that other scripts we have can pick it up irrespective of the version.
If you are pulling the file out of the repo, you can always specify the name to pull it out of the repo as 2008/10/23 Kent Närling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What IS really the purpose of <finalName>? > > Apparently, the install plugin ignores the artifact name when deploying it > to the repository anyway?? > > We would like to have a version-less filename on the artifact in the > repository (the version is in the path anyway), is this possible? > > If not, what is the real purpose of <finalName> if it is not used for the > name of the artifact/file in the end anyway... ? > > Best regards > Kent >
