When 1.0-alpha-3 of versions-maven-plugin is released.... you could build your own snapshot of it at the moment
look at the lock-snapshots and unlock-snapshots goals -Stephen 2009/3/27 Torben Knerr <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > we have "AppA" and "AppB", both having a dependency to "Common". > > All of these are under active development and using SNAPSHOT versions: > AppA: 2.2-SNAPSHOT ==> Common: 2.3-SNAPSHOT > AppB: 2.1-SNAPSHOT ==> Common: 2.3-SNAPSHOT > > Further, we want to have weekly releases of AppA. The release version > should > be 2.2.0.v20090327 while development version stays at 2.2-SNAPSHOT. > > When trying to release:prepare this then the release plugin will complain > that AppA has a reference to Common-2.3-SNAPSHOT and that we have to update > this snapshot version. It even asks me whether to release Common-2.3 and > update the dev version to Common-2.4-SNAPSHOT. > > The problem here is that the only option is to release "Common-2.3", which > I > do not want. What I would rather want is to release > "Common-2.3.0.v20090326" > instead of "Common-2.3". > > Is that possible by any means? > > Thanks and best regards, > Torben >
