Exactly. Don't do that.... Making snapshots scm dependent just leads more credibility to using them when you should have a release.
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:16 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: suggest : option to replace snapshot "timestamp" with buildnumber Oooooh! there's an option to allow snapshot dependencies in release? Cool! I did not know that... Now I can go cause me a heap load of trouble! On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:14 PM, nicolas de loof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
