only if they have snapshots deployed.

In our environment we don't deploy snapshots other than to the local
repository... thus I only see SNAPSHOTs if I did a local build of
those snapshots (which is why I want the snapshots pulled in.

An alternative is to split each goal into two goals (one that includes
snapshots and one that excludes them)

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen Connolly wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Stephen Connolly wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Stephen
>>>>>
>>>>> Great work on this plugin! This is a plugin that I plan to use 
>>>>> extensively.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've read through the docs, which there are plenty of. Always a good
>>>>> sign :-) There were however a couple of typos and broken links in there,
>>>>> which I took the liberty of fixing in SVN. I also updated to mojo-parent 
>>>>> 18.
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks, I forgot I had to switch back to mojo-parent 18
>>>>
>>>>> After playing around with the plugin a bit I found the results somewhat
>>>>> confusing, so I started to read the goal parameter docs. There I found
>>>>> the source of my confusion: the allowSnapshots parameter has true as
>>>>> default value. In my opinion this should be set to false as default.
>>>>> Using snapshots is something that should be avoided, if possible.
>>>>> Showing snapshot versions by default therefor works against best
>>>>> practices and might lure users to the dark side.
>>>>>
>>>> I'm 50:50 on this.
>>>>
>>>> I use it to switch all the suit of projects onto SNAPSHOT versions
>>>> while I'm working on them.  When doing a release the release will be
>>>> the newest version in the repo so puching back to SCM is fine in that
>>>> case.
>>>>
>>>> However I can see the other side.
>>> There are apparently different use cases for this goal. Here's my use
>>> case. One step in our release process is to check to see if there are
>>> any dependencies that should be updated. When doing that I don't want
>>> any snapshots, because the release is near.
>>
>> just add -DallowSnapshots=false
>
> Yes, for me that's not a problem.
>
> My main concern is the signals we will be sending to the users, telling
> them to update to snapshot versions.
>
>
> <snip/>
>
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> Dennis Lundberg
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