Dependency version management

2011-02-28 Thread Phillip Hellewell
I'm thinking about moving all our version management into the parent pom in a dependencyManagement section, but I'm trying to figure out if it will really make things easier or not. Of course each version number would only be in one place instead of N places, where N is the avg # of reverse

Re: Dependency version management

2011-02-28 Thread Phillip Hellewell
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Phillip Hellewell ssh...@gmail.com wrote: The problem I see with using a snapshot for the parent is it doesn't allow you to make changes in a safe way.  I could update the version # of a lower component, and then a much higher component could build against that

Re: Dependency version management

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Our move to aggregation jars was our solution of this problem. We wanted central control over versions without a lot places to manage version numbers. For each application release, we decide what third versions of third party libraries will be used. If any of the libraries need changing we

Re: Dependency version management

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Our move to aggregation jars was our solution of this problem. We wanted central control over versions without a lot places to manage version numbers. For each application release, we decide what third versions of third party libraries will be used. If any of the libraries need changing we

Re: Dependency version management

2011-02-28 Thread Phillip Hellewell
Interesting ideas, thanks. By aggregation jars I assume you mean like intermediate components with no actual code but that serve to manage versions. I think that is a neat idea. Phillip On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Ron Wheeler rwhee...@artifact-software.com wrote: Our move to aggregation

Re: Dependency version management

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
On 28/02/2011 2:39 PM, Phillip Hellewell wrote: Interesting ideas, thanks. By aggregation jars I assume you mean like intermediate components with no actual code but that serve to manage versions. I think that is a neat idea. As much I Iove being associated with a neat idea, I have to point

Re: Dependency version management

2011-02-28 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Phillip, Phillip Hellewell wrote: I'm thinking about moving all our version management into the parent pom in a dependencyManagement section, but I'm trying to figure out if it will really make things easier or not. Of course each version number would only be in one place instead of N