On 12/4/05, Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/3/05, Steve Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nope, 1.6. > > > > This is sort of what I meant when I said it's harder to do these > > releases. How is one supposed to KNOW what versions of these 30 or 40 > > plugins you have to have in order to build a release? > > > > Does Jakarta or Jakarta-commons have a page that tells you the minimum > > maven setup needed to do a site release? If not, it probably should > > have. I know this is a dynamic process, but this is nuts. > > Good point. Right now http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/building.html > just contains the statement "Be sure to follow the instructions for > upgrading the plugins to the latest releases." We could either doc > the full set there or check in the output of maven --info as a text > file in commons-build, making changes to that as necessary. I would > recommend the second option, with a link on the "building" page. I > will do that if no one beats me to it.
If we really do *have to have* a specific release of a plugin, it should be a dependency of the project. Noone should be forced to remember it. Worst case, we should provide a link to suggested upgrades and details about what to expect if you don't. > > > > > And then the other direction. I shudder to think what would have > > happened if I had tried maven 2.0. > > > Would have failed (because of POM spec and lots of other > incompatibilities), as would the 1.1 beta. I agree we need to make > version dependency clear. > > Phil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.multitask.com.au/people/dion/ "You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live." - George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
