Exactly, such a feature would be very handy.
Andreas Benneke wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> we've been in a similar situation (and still are as we worked around it
> copying the profile... ;-)
>
> We would prefer "inheriting" another profile as a base for a new one -
> from the same pom or a parent pom. This would perfectly match the
> inheritance mechanism between whole poms...
>
> Something like this:
>
> <profile>
> <id>first</id>
> <properties>
> <aProperty>aValue</aProperty>
> <anotherProperty>anotherValue</anotherProperty>
> </properties>
> <build>
> <plugins>
> <plugin>
> <artifactId>some.plugin</artifactId>
> </plugin>
> </plugins>
> </build>
> </profile>
>
> <profile>
> <id>extension_of_first</id>
> <parent>first</parent> <!-- this inherits everything from the other
> profile -->
> <properties>
> <aProperty>changedValue</aProperty> <!-- overwrite the value of
> the property -->
> <!-- anotherProperty is simply inherited and available here -->
> </properties>
> <!-- build is inherited and available here -->
> </profile>
>
> What do you think?
>
> Or is this even possible and I have not yet discovered such a feature?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andy
>
>
> FarhanS wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Though I have been told by Wayne that this isn't currently possible, so
>> was
>> wondering which in the future 2.1.X or 3.X release might this be
>> available
>> or if it is being planned for, at all ?
>>
>> So basically I came to the need of making a profile which is an exactly
>> replica of an existing one except for one property. Instead of
>> copy/pasting
>> all the values into this new profile, it would have been very useful if
>> there was a way to refer to a profile's property like
>> ${profileA.propertyName}, but i guess we are not living in a perfect
>> world
>> ;)
>>
>> Please comment..
>>
>> Farhan.
>>
>
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