I think that is the issue On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:37 PM, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Maybe I misunderstood what Benjamin is saying but I believe I've run into > this also... IIUC the situation is that the plugin and its parent pom are in > totally unrelated svn locations and _not_ including the svn tag in the > plugin results in _completely incorrect and meaningless_ scm info in the > generated site. So again IIUC the only plugins that are dealing with it > correctly are those that include the correct svm info explicitly. > > parent pom at <>/tags/parent-1/pom.xml > plugin at <>/trunk/foo-plugin/pom.xml > > No way to navigate from plugin to parent AFAICT or deduce plugin's scm > location from the parents. > > I thought leaving out the scm tag only works when the entire set of maven > projects was released at once with a fixed relationship between parent and > sub-projects. > > Am I missing something? > > thanks > david jencks > > > > > On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > It sounds more like problems in particular plugins. Restating the SCM URL >> is a bad thing and we should make it so that it can be used reliably. If >> certain plugins are not dealing with it correctly then those need to be >> fixed soon. >> >> On 11-Aug-08, at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Bentmann wrote: >> >> Brian E. Fox wrote: >>> >>> Seems fishy to me as well. We have inheritance for a reason. >>>> >>> >>> Over at Mojo I suggested adding <scm> several times for the following >>> reason. Most of the time, a plugin inherits from a released parent whose SCM >>> URL points to its tag, say >>> repo/tags/parent-1 >>> Now, running "mvn site" on a plugin POM that just inherits this URL will >>> deliver >>> repo/tags/parent-1/foo-maven-plugin-X >>> i.e. the plugin's SCM URL points erroneously to a sub directory of the >>> parent's tag. >>> >>> This phenomenon is irrelevant as long as no snapshot sites are deployed >>> from the trunk. During a release, the Release Plugin's tagBase parameter >>> should kick in and ensure the assembled SCM URL is correct. Not sure how/if >>> this is related to the problems Dennis described. >>> >>> >>> >>> Benjamin >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Jason van Zyl >> Founder, Apache Maven >> jason at sonatype dot com >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> >> First, the taking in of scattered particulars under one Idea, >> so that everyone understands what is being talked about ... Second, >> the separation of the Idea into parts, by dividing it at the joints, >> as nature directs, not breaking any limb in half as a bad carver might. >> >> -- Plato, Phaedrus (Notes on the Synthesis of Form by C. Alexander) >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
