Hi, I have a requirement where I need to specify specific versions for a set of (basic) plugins. Adding the versions to the pom isn't an option because we need to set the plugin versions for a vast number of _unrelated_ builds. As I've found at [1], I've manually created a plugin-registry.xml file with needed plugin versions added. In addition to that, I've created maven-metadata-local.xml file in the m2 repo under the plugin directories, pointing to <latest> and <release> versions.
But, unfortunately, these specified versions were not picked up by mvn. I needed latest maven-compiler-plugin version 2.3.2, but it always try to use 2.0.2. I've noticed that [1] is somewhat outdated because --check-plugin-latest parameter doesn't available anymore. So, I'm asking, does the plugin-registry.xml is still used by maven? If not what is the mechanism for specifying specific plugin versions (apart from current/parent pom)? (I've seen in some posts that the plugin-registry.xml isn't used anymore, but debug mode shows that mvn retrieves data from that file. ) Apparently, maven-metada-local.xml isn't created automatically for me either. How I can instruct mvn to do that? My plugin-registry.xml is at [2]. (There wasn't a template for that. So, hope the format is correct!). maven-metadata-local.xml of maven-compiler-plugin is at [3]. I'm using official apache maven-2.2.1 build. Your help is much appreciated. [1] http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-plugin-registry.html [2] http://pastebin.com/yprQU2D2 [3] http://pastebin.com/Y375dwMg Thanks, --Kasun -- ~~~*******'''''''''''''*******~~~ Kasun Gajasinghe, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Blog: http://blog.kasunbg.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
