On 12/4/05, Dion Gillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > Agreed. I tried yesterday to add plugin version dependencies to the commons-build POM (the most logical choice). This got maven to download the updated versions when necessary, but I did not get consistent results from maven --info afterwards, so I did not commit the change. It could be that my local setup got messed up due to removing / updating plugins during testing.
I added a script to install all of the versions (probably more than we need) to commons-build root, called pluginUpdate.txt. Dennis provided a patch for the "building" page mentioning the xdoc 1.9+ dependency. It would probably be a good idea to add a "troubleshooting" section describing commons problems due to wrong plugin / maven versions, etc. Any other suggestions / patches / updates welcome. Phil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
