We tried to find it, but with no success. It seems that it does not
work.
This is why we put propose the depenciesManagement tag.
/stephane
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:18:14AM +0200, Manuel Santillan wrote:
> Is there a ${parent.version} scheme or something like that which can be
> used instead of the explicitly specifying the version for each dependency?
>
> Stephane Frenot (JIRA) escribió:
> > A better bundle/artifact version numbering scheme
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Key: FELIX-155
> > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-155
> > Project: Felix
> > Issue Type: Improvement
> > Reporter: Stephane Frenot
> > Priority: Trivial
> >
> >
> > There is an issue with version management.
> > For the moment many bundles are versionned on the same scheme as
> > felix framework. ie : 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT
> >
> > This is because most of them do not declare a version number in their
> > pom.xml.
> >
> > But if you declare a specific version number in you pom.xml there is
> > an issue, because you cannot use anymore the default $pom.version in your
> > dependencies. So you need to explicitely declare 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT in all
> > your depencies, that will lead to a management problem later.
> >
> > This is what happens with an example.
> >
> > 1) The classical files
> > <project>
> > <parent>...felix...</parent>
> > ...
> > <version>0.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
> > </parent>
> > ...
> > <dependencies>
> > <dependency>
> > <groupId>...</groupId>
> > <version>${pom.version}</version> --> This defaults to the
> >
> > current pom.xml version
> >
> > if specified, and to the
> >
> > parent version number if
> >
> > not.
> >
> > 2) The classical solution I found in some bundles
> > <project>
> > <parent>...felix...</parent>
> > ...
> > <version>0.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
> > </parent>
> > <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> --> Declare a specific bundle
> >
> > version
> > ...
> > <dependencies>
> > <dependency>
> > <groupId>...</groupId>
> > <version>0.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version> --> You cannot use anymore
> >
> > ${pom.version} (because
> >
> > it is now 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT)
> >
> > So you need to specify
> >
> > for all your dependencies
> >
> > the felix/framework
> >
> > version numbers.
> >
> > ******************
> > In order to avoid this problem, version dependencies can be declared
> > in a DependenciesManagement tag in the main pom.xml. This tags
> > declares general version number dependencies. And declares the default
> > version number to be used for child artifacts.
> >
> > <DependenciesManagement>
> > <dependency>
> > <groupId>${pom.groupId}</groupId>
> > <artifactId>org.osgi.core</artifactId>
> > <version>0.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
> > <scope>provided</scope>
> > </dependency>
> > <dependency>
> > <groupId>${pom.groupId}</groupId>
> > <artifactId>org.osgi.compendium</artifactId>
> > <version>0.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
> > <scope>provided</scope>
> > </dependency>
> > <DependenciesManagement>
> >
> > Now your pom.xml can avoid specifying a version number for it's
> > dependencies.
> > <project>
> > <parent>...felix...</parent>
> > ...
> > <version>0.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
> > </parent>
> > <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> --> Declare a specific bundle
> > version
> > ...
> > <dependencies>
> > <dependency>
> > <groupId>...</groupId>
> > <artifactId>org.osgi.core</artifactId>
> > <scope>provided</scope>
> > </dependency>
> >
> >
> >
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