On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:33, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm moving along with the maven-project component and I have arbitrary
> levels of inheritance working for properties and the model.
>
> Now I'm starting to look at the property interpolation mechanism and I
> would like to propose for 1.1 that values in properties files be
> interpolated in the model values but ${pom.foo} values not be
> interpolated in properties values.
>
> The first reason is that it makes the process a lot more clear and
> second I'm not sure if having model values interpolated in properties
> values is really of any use. I think when we have cases like:
>
> maven.xdoc.version = ${pom.currentVersion}
>
> We could really just use the ${pom.currentVersion} directly in the
> relevant plugin instead of putting it in a property and then sucking it
> back in.
>
> At any rate, to make the project processing in 1.1 highly deterministic
> I would like to remove ${pom.foo} value interpolation in properties
> files.
Another point that I wanted to raise was that properties may ultimately
come from other sources such as database, or ldap and how much sense
does it make for those sources to have access to the POM. I honestly
don't think a whole lot. I think properties should just be flat
name/value pairs with no ${pom} interpolation.
--
jvz.
Jason van Zyl
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In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational
and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it.
-- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
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