Re: newbie: understanding how teams deal with version numbers on dependencies (Best practices)?

2008-09-14 Thread Wayne Fay
Sure, you can do this by setting a version number to 'RELEASE' to get the latest non-snapshot, but IMHO it's a bad practice in general. In any dev You can also do similar things with version ranges eg [1,2) means version greater than 1 but less than 2. If you are making serious (breaking)

Re: newbie: understanding how teams deal with version numbers on dependencies (Best practices)?

2008-09-14 Thread Graham Leggett
Dave Newton wrote: In other words, use the maven-release-plugin to publish formal releases of code, and make sure that project A never depends on a snapshot of project B if you can possibly avoid it. Use proper version numbers. Would it be reasonable to say that *released* versions of A

Re: newbie: understanding how teams deal with version numbers on dependencies (Best practices)?

2008-09-14 Thread Graham Leggett
Rick wrote: Here's what I'm confused at though. Project A builds a jar. It needs to be used in Project B. Ideally of course Project A should be tested in Project B locally, but in reality (unfortunately) the dev environment often becomes a more 'real' test. Typically the developers of Project A

Re: newbie: understanding how teams deal with version numbers on dependencies (Best practices)?

2008-09-14 Thread sverhagen
Graham Leggett wrote: But by doing this, project B is saying we accept that project A may break at any time, and we accept this. ... There is no right answer as to when this should happen, this is up to the development team. But it is down to a binary choice: be on the snapshot

Re: newbie: understanding how teams deal with version numbers on dependencies (Best practices)?

2008-09-14 Thread Stephen Connolly
You might want to either have a look at the versions-maven-plugin or consider version ranges. With the versions-maven-plugin you can update a property that locks down the version you use automatically, which can be helpful in controlling when you get an update in your dependency. If you just

Re: newbie: understanding how teams deal with version numbers on dependencies (Best practices)?

2008-09-14 Thread Rick
This isn't in reply to Stephen directly since so many people have made good points.. so thanks. I guess I'm still wonder what most people practice (or maybe not most but what's considered 'good'), in regard to the following situation... Project B will be putting out a new release based on

Re: maven-changelog-plugin and svn+certificate

2008-09-14 Thread Brett Porter
is an error shown during the build? perhaps the JDK you are using doesn't have the certificate or that of its issuer in the JDK certificate store. - Brett 2008/9/11 Simone Tripodi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks, here in the company we're using subversion with certificate-based authentication,

Re: site plugin hangs.

2008-09-14 Thread Brett Porter
It seems the dependency report is not honouring the mirror settings - you might need to check if the newer version (which is planned to be released soon) corrects this issue, or if there is another issue in JIRA for it. If not, it should definitely be recorded. I'm not sure if it will be possible