Would you DEPLOY a snapshot without first testing and commiting ? You're right that this is not a 100% safe way to fix this issue, just an attempt to make things (a little bit) more stable. A full fix would be to never use SNAPSHOTs, and to deprecate release/enforcer option to accept them ;-)
2008/8/13 Stephen Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Of course the problem with that is what if there were local changes when > the > build was made? Now the SCM revision is meaningless > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:03 PM, nicolas de loof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Recent snapshot repository purge introduced issues for those of us that > > depend on a specific timestamp SNAPSHOT. This is supposed to be a valid > > usecase as supported by the release and enforcer plugins. > > > > There is no way to rebuild such jars, as we can get the sources from SCM > > according to date, but cannot build and deploy the jar with the expected > > name (manual renaming is required). > > > > Could we consider for future the option to use the SCM revision ( for SCM > > that support this option, but most of us use SVN ;-) ) in replacement to > a > > timestamp, so that a specific timestamp can easily be rebuilded at > anytime > > ? > > The version format could be "X.Y.Z-revision-ABCDE". > > > > Nicolas. > > >
