OK, I just moved this issue to https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-450.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Stephen Connolly <[email protected]> wrote: > Ancestors are dependencies, you cannot build a project without its parent... > You just don't reference them in a dependencies section is all! > > I think it actually would suit perfectly in dependency:tree (esp when you > consider that crazy people can and do put dependencies in parent projects in > order to inject them into all children) > > > On Sunday, 22 June 2014, Mirko Friedenhagen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Good points, Stephen. As ancestors are not dependencies, I would prefer to >> enhance the help plugin instead. Ccing this to maven-dev >> >> Regards >> Mirko >> -- >> Sent from my mobile >> >> On Jun 22, 2014 10:39 PM, "Stephen Connolly" >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> My concern is that the versions plugin has become a catch-all-grab-bag. >>> >>> I want to consolidate its functionality and reduce the number of goals >>> and options that people need to use it. >>> >>> This is adding a new goal. The goal itself does not say anything about >>> whether there are updates available (and it should not really as the only >>> update in an ancestor that you can achieve on the pom you are looking at is >>> the immediate parent. >>> >>> I think this might suit better beside dependency:tree or >>> help:effective-pom where the plugins are not concerned with either comparing >>> versions of things against the available versions or updating versions of >>> things. >>> >>> >>> On 22 June 2014 21:22, Mirko Friedenhagen <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello Stephen, >>>> >>>> what do you think about adding this? I have already a working >>>> implementation at >>>> >>>> https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/branches/mfriedenhagen/versions-maven-plugin-display-ancestors >>>> with an IT and would like to merge this back to trunk. >>>> >>>> See svn diff >>>> https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/versions-maven-plugin >>>> >>>> https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/branches/mfriedenhagen/versions-maven-plugin-display-ancestors >>>> for the diff. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Mirko >>> >>> > > > -- > Sent from my phone --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
