Re: AW: Problems with the release plugin

2014-12-02 Thread Benson Margulies
just relax a constraint' and still get a coherent result. > > Chris > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Robert Scholte [mailto:rfscho...@apache.org] > Gesendet: Montag, 1. Dezember 2014 20:00 > An: Maven Users List > Betreff: Re: AW: Problems with the release pl

AW: AW: Problems with the release plugin

2014-12-02 Thread Dutz, Christofer
y dropping usage oft he release plugin. Chris -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Robert Scholte [mailto:rfscho...@apache.org] Gesendet: Montag, 1. Dezember 2014 20:00 An: Maven Users List Betreff: Re: AW: Problems with the release plugin Just to be sure that we are on the same page: Your req

Re: AW: Problems with the release plugin

2014-12-01 Thread Robert Scholte
Just to be sure that we are on the same page: Your request is if the maven-release-plugin could be changed, so you can specify versions for external (i.e. non reactor/multimodule) dependencies. I won't allow this unless it can be automated, hence the introduction of the VersionPolicy. This is

AW: Problems with the release plugin

2014-11-30 Thread Christofer Dutz
Oh well ... I give up ... so yet another plugin it will be. I wasn't talking about changing anything at the workflow, just to have one enforced constraint loosended a little if required, but I guess this will never happen. Chris -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Benson Margulies [mailt

AW: Problems with the release plugin

2014-11-30 Thread Christofer Dutz
Unfortunately the world isn't as ideal as I would like it to be. There are sometimes constraints that lie outside of the reach of the developer(s) working on the projects build. In one case the company I worked for desperately needed to release parts of a multi module build separately. I know t

AW: Problems with the release plugin

2014-11-30 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi Robert, Thanks for your reply, but I have encountered numerous situations where this restriction resulted in people not using the pulugin at all ... doing each step with alternate plugins and unfortunately leaving away some of the steps. So ususally they use the versions plugin or manually a