Right, it looks like "help:describe -Dplugin=resources" will download and
show the latest version of a plugin, regarless of what version the
project/pom actually specifies.
In which case this FAQ entry is VERY wrong, and should be update ASAP to
save people trouble:
http://maven.apache.org/gener
Help even reports version 2.4.1 for the below pom:
...
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-resources-plugin
2.3
> and are SEPARATE configurations.
Which version is reported by "mvn help:describe -Dplugin="?
Anyway, if I change my simple pom to this (note this is a brand new project,
this pom.xml is the only thing in the directory, there is no parent
pom--other than super--I have not modified the maven
maven-resources-plugin resolves to version 2.4.1 despite 2.3 being specified
in the super pom.
My entire pom is this:
4.0.0
com.redshiftsoft
redshift-pom
pom
1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
mvn help:describe -Dplugin=resources
Reports version 2.4.1
HOWEVER,
mvn help:effective-pom
sh
