LATEST works only for plugins artifacts. I suggest that you use a parent POM and put the required versions in the dependenciesManagement section. So you have to modify a single POM instead (but you still have to modify the version for this POM in your sub-poms !)
Jeff MAURY On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Laurent Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I've got a dozen projects or so with a <dependency> on a 1.0-SNAPSHOT > artifact X ; recently, I've been using the maven release plugin for > this artifact, so that I can release incremental versions with maven > changes plugin jira changelogs, like 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and so on. > > My problem is that each time I release a new artifact X (or even > deploy a new SNAPSHOT), I have to upgrade the ~12 projects pom.xml in > order to benefit from the latest upgrade. This is very cumbersome, and > I'd like to have some automation enabled. > > I've tried setting the artifact X <version> to LATEST in my child > projects so that the newest jar is always downloaded on mvn install, > however, this does not seem to work, I'm getting the usual BUILD > ERROR, saying 1) com.my.company.artifact:jar:LATEST is missing. > > - How is LATEST supposed to work, do I have to specify something in my > artifact X pom.xml to say "I'm the latest version, too" ? Is it a > repository "option" to tell which artifact is the latest one ? > - How would you deal with such an upgrade situation where many > projects rely on a single one, and this single one is evolving very > often thru incremental releases ? > > Thanks if you shed some light :) > laurent > > -- > <a href="http://in-pocket.blogspot.com";>http://in-pocket.blogspot.com > - Mobile world, technology and more</a> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- La mélancolie c’est communiste Tout le monde y a droit de temps en temps La mélancolie n’est pas capitaliste C’est même gratuit pour les perdants La mélancolie c’est pacifiste On ne lui rentre jamais dedans La mélancolie oh tu sais ça existe Elle se prend même avec des gants La mélancolie c’est pour les syndicalistes Il faut juste sa carte de permanent Miossec (2006) http://www.jeffmaury.com http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com http://www.lastfm.fr/listen/user/jeffmaury/personal
