On 01/02/2010, at 2:01 PM, Wendy Smoak wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote: >> I think this has come up before and we wanted to avoid doing it for things >> on the command line, where it is hard to override. In general that would be >> true, but for the archetype plugin being the first experience people have >> with Maven, a bit more reliability would probably be useful. >> >> I thought we could apply the patch below in 2.2.2. This would by default >> lock it down, but allow the comparatively simple cmd line to get a different >> version: >> >> $ mvn archetype:generate -Dmaven.archetype.version=2.0-alpha-6-SNAPSHOT > > Can't you already specify the version with the long form > > mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:VERSION:generate > > (which doesn't look like that much more typing, and sticks to an > established convention) ?
That wouldn't allow setting it in settings.xml, so you'd have to type the longer version every time. - Brett -- Brett Porter br...@apache.org http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
