Re: Activating profile in child POM

2007-03-14 Thread Steinar Bang
> "Brian E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes. I looked into the plexus-archiver component and it doesn't > appear to support symlinks. I filed a request and then linked the > MDEP one to it. Your best bet at this point is to create a patch for > the archiver support and then we can add it to ma

RE: Re: Activating profile in child POM

2007-03-13 Thread Brian E. Fox
>>(btw you've probably guessed that this is a workaround for >>dependency:unpack not preserving symlinks...? However, I still would >>like to see that JIRA feature request... removes kludges and >>workarounds...;-) ) Yes. I looked into the plexus-archiver component and it doesn't appear to suppor

Re: Activating profile in child POM

2007-03-13 Thread Steinar Bang
> "Brian E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think you can activate based on a property set in a parent. > Normally this wouldn't make sense because it's always the same until > ou change it right? Yup. That's what I figured. > It should work using -D or even -P to specify the profile.

RE: Activating profile in child POM

2007-03-13 Thread Brian E. Fox
D] On Behalf Of Steinar Bang Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:45 PM To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: Activating profile in child POM I've been reading http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.htm l and trying to understand how profiles should be used What

Activating profile in child POM

2007-03-13 Thread Steinar Bang
I've been reading http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html and trying to understand how profiles should be used What I'm trying to do, is: 1. download, and install the appropriate shared lib/DLL for different platforms, for use with JNI wrappers 2.