Can anyone help answer whether I've missed some subtlety as to why a
fix like this wouldn't work (I appreciate the inner workings of maven
can be a bit complicated...) ?


On Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Nigel Magnay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that putting it in pluginManagement doesn't help
>  because the builds genuinely do want to use different versions,
>  particularly of internally-developed mojos that change in different
>  (and sometimes incompatible ways).
>
>  A typical case is a base library uses a fixed, stable release, but
>  another project has needed further development, so moves to a
>  snapshot. The projects all build in isolation, but in reactor builds
>  (build project and all dependencies) they fail seemingly mysteriously
>  ways, because be base library builds first (and is owned by a separate
>  team who may be unaware) and lock down the plugin. I've also seen it
>  with different teams using different versions of things like the
>  assembly plugin.
>
>  Anyway...
>
>  Is 2.1 going to be the next released M2 version, rather than a 2.0.9?
>  I thought 2.1 was still pretty unstable?
>  Would the fix (or something like it) in MNG-3284 work? (if not I'm
>  prepared to do some more work on it, if someone can point me to where
>  I need to look...)
>
>  TIA,
>  Nigel
>
>
>
>
>  On Feb 3, 2008 5:56 PM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > This is fixed in 2.1, but if you are constantly having this problem, it
>  > sounds like maybe you need to use pluginManagement in a corp pom to
>  > resolve this issue.
>  >
>  >
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Nigel Magnay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 8:44 AM
>  > To: dev@maven.apache.org
>  > Subject: MNG-3284
>  >
>  > Hi.
>  >
>  > In our work projects, we're *constantly* being bitten by the 'first
>  > version of a plugin used wins' problem, which seems variously
>  > described in particular MNG JIRA items, mine in particular being
>  > MNG-3284.
>  >
>  > I've had a go at fixing it as it didn't seem that complicated - but -
>  > some of the comments in the code and some of the other JIRA tickets
>  > allude to the problem being possibly bigger than what I've looked at.
>  > Unfortunately I can't tell if these are things that are still issues
>  > as it dates back quite a long way.
>  >
>  > I'd really like it if someone who's more intimate with the workings
>  > could tell me what else would need considering - that way I could
>  > generate some test cases and perhaps have a stab at a wider fix.
>  >
>  > TIA,
>  > Nigel
>  >
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