On 2009-12-23, at 11:21 AM, fabrice.mercier1 wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> Why do you think it is a bad practice ? I am currently trouble with the
> choice of setting it to true or false.
> 

You cannot uniquely identify one build from the next and just many other 
potentially bad practices.

> Fabrice
> 
> 
> Jason van Zyl-5 wrote:
>> 
>> I think it can be in the same vein as the no versions for plugins. Not  
>> a very good idea and potentially harmful.
>> 
>> We put it in, deprecate it over 3.0 and it becomes taboo in 3.1. If  
>> it's a bad practice in the majority of cases then we eliminate it.  
>> Over the life of 3.0 to 3.1 should be long enough. We can also start  
>> deprecating things like this in the 2.x line.
>> 
>> On 2009-09-04, at 4:49 PM, Brian Fox wrote:
>> 
>>> I saw this on Benjamin's compat page yesterday and thought I'd throw
>>> it up for discussion:
>>> Non-unique Snapshot Deployments
>>> 
>>> The setting <uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion> for a distribution
>>> repository has no effect in version 3.x, snapshot artifacts will
>>> always be deployed using a timestamped version.
>>> 
>>> I personally am not a fan of this feature as I've seen it cause more
>>> problems than it solves. It also harkens back to a time when
>>> Repository Managers didn't exist and seems like a work around to
>>> cleaning up old snapshots. So my life would be easier if this didn't
>>> exist.
>>> 
>>> That said, I know of at least one instance where this is required
>>> (will send a separate thread about that because it's a flaw in Maven
>>> that should be addressed separately).
>>> 
>>> With the focus on 3.0 being a drop in for M2, this clearly would cause
>>> some heartache for users. Does anyone feel strongly enough that this
>>> should go back? (and is willing to write the new code for it?)
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>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jason
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Thanks,

Jason

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