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Edward Staub edited comment on MNG-624 at 5/19/11 7:11 AM:
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I'm going to be evangelizing Maven to my dev group, where we have a 
similarly-sized code base, build using Ant.  This ("WE HAVE TO EDIT EVERY 
BUILDFILE ON EVERY RELEASE?!?") is the kind of thing that makes conversion hard 
to get consensus on - conservatives latch onto them and wave them around as 
"show-stoppers", whether true or not.

      was (Author: estaub):
    I'm going to be evangelizing Maven to my dev group, where we have a 
similarly-sized code base, build using Ant.  This is the kind of thing that 
makes conversion hard to get consensus on - conservatives latch onto them and 
wave them around as "show-stoppers", whether true or not.
  
> automatic parent versioning
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-624
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Inheritance and Interpolation
>            Reporter: Brett Porter
>            Assignee: Ralph Goers
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 3.1
>
>         Attachments: MNG-624-maven-2.0.x-r507648.patch, MNG-624-tests.tar.gz
>
>   Original Estimate: 4 hours
>  Remaining Estimate: 4 hours
>
> (this may be bumped to 2.1 or even made WON't FIX as it is contentious - see 
> MNG-521)
> currently, you have to specify the parent version when extending which makes 
> a project stand alone very easily, but has the drawback of being a 
> maintainance problem when you start development on a new version. Tools can 
> help, but it would be nice not to have to rely on them.
> One alternative is to allow the parent version to be omitted, and when it is 
> it is assumed you want the latest. The parent is used from the reactor or the 
> universal source directory. IT may also be read from a LATEST in the 
> repository though this is contentious - it may be better to simply fail in 
> that environment and require builds be in a known checkout structure for 
> building individual projects.
> This also introduces the need for tool support to populate the version on 
> release and deployment for reproducibility.

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