Re: [IDEA] - Having a parent maven pom.xml for only the dependency versions

2013-08-18 Thread Daniel Kulp
Personally, I was going to suggest going the other direction and completely get rid of the "parent" pom and move everything into the top level pom. We already have a non-standard maven layout due to the parent pom which can be confusing for people (and tools). I'd much rather try and find a

Re: [IDEA] - Having a parent maven pom.xml for only the dependency versions

2013-08-18 Thread Claus Ibsen
Hi Yeah Babak's idea sounds good. Having that 2-level of parents. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Babak Vahdat wrote: > I just tried out a different approach which: > > - doesn't require any Maven plugin usage. > - doesn't require to convert the Maven properties from the XML format to the > Jav

Re: [IDEA] - Having a parent maven pom.xml for only the dependency versions

2013-08-18 Thread Babak Vahdat
I just tried out a different approach which: - doesn't require any Maven plugin usage. - doesn't require to convert the Maven properties from the XML format to the Java properties file format etc. - is really simple. So the idea is to simply bump one more level of parent-child dependency into our

Re: [IDEA] - Having a parent maven pom.xml for only the dependency versions

2013-08-18 Thread R. Sirchia
Hi, Why don't you do it the other way around? I understand from Claus that his desire is not so much to manage the dependencies and their versions in a different file, but just to provide a file where the version properties can be easily read from and diffed between releases. In that case, you c

Re: [IDEA] - Having a parent maven pom.xml for only the dependency versions

2013-08-18 Thread Christian Müller
Is there a plugin you are aware of which supports this? If yes, +1 Best, Christian - Software Integration Specialist Apache Camel committer: https://camel.apache.org/team V.P. Apache Camel: https://www.apache.org/foundation/ Apache Member: https://www.apache.org/foundation/member