Re: maven-dependency-plugin purge proper usage

2013-05-12 Thread Graham Leggett
On 12 May 2013, at 2:47 AM, Joe Osowski wrote: > Yes, you are correct. However, the problem with release/snapshots is that > maven assumes a revision in the VCS is a release. But in reality, a release > is the binary built by maven. A release is never just the binary built by maven, those ar

Re: maven-dependency-plugin purge proper usage

2013-05-11 Thread Joe Osowski
Yes, you are correct. However, the problem with release/snapshots is that maven assumes a revision in the VCS is a release. But in reality, a release is the binary built by maven. Using snapshots with multiple snapshot dependencies introduces changes at release time that a release engineer ha

Re: maven-dependency-plugin purge proper usage

2013-05-11 Thread Graham Leggett
On 11 May 2013, at 10:17 PM, Joe Osowski wrote: >>> the build to make sure the latest dependencies are downloaded, as we >>> sometimes >>> change the non snapshot released binaries on our local maven repository. >> >> You do realize that this is a really bad idea, and it will eventually >> bite

Re: maven-dependency-plugin purge proper usage

2013-05-11 Thread Joe Osowski
On May 11, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Wayne Fay wrote: >> the build to make sure the latest dependencies are downloaded, as we >> sometimes >> change the non snapshot released binaries on our local maven repository. > > You do realize that this is a really bad idea, and it will eventually > bite you, r

Re: maven-dependency-plugin purge proper usage

2013-05-11 Thread Wayne Fay
> the build to make sure the latest dependencies are downloaded, as we sometimes > change the non snapshot released binaries on our local maven repository. You do realize that this is a really bad idea, and it will eventually bite you, right? > [INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.3:clean (default-cle

maven-dependency-plugin purge proper usage

2013-05-11 Thread Joe Osowski
I'm trying to use the dependency plugin to purge a few dependencies prior to the build to make sure the latest dependencies are downloaded, as we sometimes change the non snapshot released binaries on our local maven repository. My configuration noted below: org.apache.maven.plu