But why are you pulling them from your repo by hand. When we need to get the artifact we copy it out of the local repo with either the dependencies:copy goal in a little project, or with maven ant tasks
Both of these allow us to control the name. 2008/10/23 Kent Närling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Exactly what we wanted too! > > But when I do this, the filename in the repository gets the default name > anyway!! > > When running it locally for instance, I get the following message: > [INFO] Installing > > C:\Workspaces\main\requestparser\requestparser-servlet\target\requestparser-servletxx.war > to C:\Documents and > > Settings\kent\.m2\repository\com\seamless\ers\requestparser-servlet\1.0rc3-SNAPSHOT\requestparser-servlet-1.0rc3-SNAPSHOT.war > > ie, it seems the install plugin simply ignores the <finalName> tag?!? > > I mean, obviously it is nice to have a war file have a fixed name since it > usually dictates the default path to the context in the container and you > don't want the version in that?!? > > Naturally it is possible to manually re-name it, but that kind of defeats > the purpose of a company repository if you have to re-name the files before > you use them?!? > > 2008/10/23 Stephen Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > Kent Närling > > System Architect > SEAMLESS > Dalagatan 100, 8 tr, 113 43 Stockholm, Sweden > Phone: +46 8 5648 7800, fax: +46 8 5648 7823 > Mobile: +46 70 836 9925 > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.seamless.se >
