The IDEs like Eclipse, IDEA etc must adapt to versionless parent. @Christian Execution of large projects and parent version depends on development team. Nowadays they are going to be Microservices very small and isolated in build time and runtime as well. It really depends on the needs. For instance nowadays I can non-recursively -N release a parent and a specific child -pl can be released separately and release plugin will ask me what is the release version of parent.
If Maven had continuous build based on SCM information, I would not care if I run the build from the root even if I want to build only changed child somewhere deeply in the tree. Actually this is the feature I am missing in Maven and installing Jenkins for that, no developer would do. But logically if such large structure will always be built from root because of such coupling and because of all WAR file always will be deployed to JBoss together at the same time because they have common database model, then it makes perfect sense not to have intermediate Parent sections because this is one big consistent structure and always will be. And again if a developer wants to build a part of that then still can do that in the same manner but continuous Maven core should ask SCM for changes after last build time and build always only changed modules which would be perfect, would not it be? On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Christian Schulte <c...@schulte.it> wrote: > Am 12/12/16 um 10:16 schrieb Tibor Digana: > > Is it really necessary to specify version of parent artifact in > <parent/>? > > It must be possible to checkout a single module and build that in > isolation. A parent without a version cannot be resolved from a > repository. Supporting that means you need to checkout the whole project > (can be very huge) just to be able to find the parent on disk. > Installing/deploying an artifact without version is impossible - > incomplete coordinates. So there needs to be a version as soon as an > artifact is to be installed or deployed. > > Regards, > -- > Christian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Cheers Tibor
