Hello,
if interested: the topic of lightweight maven releases is discussed in
"DevOps for Developers", Apress, Chapter 8.
Cheers,
Michael
> Hello there,
>
> I. find prepare and perform quite heavyweight my self. After prepare did
> build everything successfully, it throws away everything, ju
- when speaking about "SNAPSHOTs" we should distinguish between
dependencies and what we produce. With a build we produce an artifact which
is either a SNAPSHOT or release according to the version in the pom.xml. A
dependency resolves either to a SNAPSHOT or a released version of another
library. T
Hello there,
I. find prepare and perform quite heavyweight my self. After prepare did
build everything successfully, it throws away everything, just tags the
source and starts over again during perform.
prepare already checks with scm means, that there are no modifications and
in my experience ta
Graham, well said.
Although the pom.xml is the easiest way to discover the version, it is not
the best location, since it would require a commit.
The solution must be found in a generated file which will be added to the
artifact during packaging. Here you could add a timestamp or revision.
On 30 Apr 2013, at 11:21 PM, Roger Brechbühl wrote:
> Maybe somebody is interested in how a release could be built in a more
> lightweight and safe way than with the maven-release-plugin. Especially
> recommended for nightly releases.
>
> It's not yet released, but basically fully working:
>
>
Hi Nambi
1. Why does the jar need to be part of maven installation? Why not a plugin?
The version given on the command line is passed into the model when it's
loaded (model.setVersion(version)). And this is done for all modules when
the model is read. When having a plugin I would change the versi
Hi Rotch
This sounds quite interesting and I feel it would be useful to a lot of
projects.
The release-plugin as it is, is not very flexible.
Questions
1. Why does the jar need to be part of maven installation? Why not a plugin?
2. Can it generate a version based on some strategy? Looks like th
