Why is it that properties don't get expanded when used inside of a
version tag? This seems like a bug to me and is making it impossible to
incorporate maven into our build environment because we can't get maven
to use a version property from outside, i.e. via an environment variable
or something of that sort.
I've post similar questions to the user group with no response; it is
getting very frustrating. For how great Maven is with versioning this
appears to be a major drawback. Please tell me if I'm missing something
here or if there is another way to accomplish the same thing.
It's also inconsistent; as when you do an install to the repository; it
uses the expanded property name; but inside the pom, the version isn't
expanded. And if I try to build a child project it doesn't expand the
parent version property and is therefore looking for a parent with a
version named something like ${blah blah blah}.
Thanks,
Jpl
