For the continuous delivery friendly versions I saw an issue in JIRA as well that tried to use snapshots.
The version is always a release version, not a snapshot. Snapshots are definitively not CD friendly. In the system I'm working on that currently uses this feature it is always a Perforce changelist which is the version. All artifacts get deployed with this version. This is getting close, but we don't use snapshots or the release plugin which is the way I believe things will evolve in the Maven ecosystem. This is the generations stuff I've mentioned and while it is working in production right now, it's not complete but I'll likely have all the edge cases worked out in a few months. So the theory is with this mechanism that the release version is passed in externally always. I have another method I'm working on which is to have something like x.y.z.qualifier where the magic happens in the maven-aether-provider to do the necessary transformation based on the system you're running in: Git, P4, whatever. What are you trying to do? I can explain more if I know what you're playing with. On Apr 15, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been thinking about how to exploit the 3.2.1 feature of > > <version>${something}</version> > > My idea is that an ordinary developer would end up with 'something' > defined to be a good, old, -SNAPSHOT, while various automated builds > would define it based on git commits. > > Is is intended that a POM could declare > > <something>44-SNAPSHOT</something> > > and then have the command-line override with -Dsomething=SOMETHING-else? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl http://twitter.com/takari_io --------------------------------------------------------- A party which is not afraid of letting culture, business, and welfare go to ruin completely can be omnipotent for a while. -- Jakob Burckhardt
