Re: publishing sub-modules without requiring the parent module to be published?

2015-10-12 Thread Curtis Rueden
Hi Kevin, Having a public project extend a private one seems fundamentally broken/impossible to me. Presumably your "parent project" is just a POM and not a JAR, right? Can you use a structure like: toplevelPublicPOM - publicProject1 - publicProject2 - privateParentPOM -- privateProjectA

Re: publishing sub-modules without requiring the parent module to be published?

2015-10-12 Thread Kevin Burton
That's a good point. It's a tough call because we're trying to move as fast as possible but this means that the code can bitrot and not get updates from the community. The other thing I was thinking about was using the maven updates plugin to automatically detect when new versions are released.

Re: publishing sub-modules without requiring the parent module to be published?

2015-10-12 Thread Ron Wheeler
You are probably going to want to make your open source project completely separate with its own versions and parent. If third parties are actually going to file issues, provide updates and create new minor versions as they fix bugs, you are going to either be forced to release versions of yo

Re: publishing sub-modules without requiring the parent module to be published?

2015-10-11 Thread Baptiste Mathus
I'm pretty sure you can't. At least on Central who IIRC checks that kind of things. It's indeed needed for the dependency resolution mechanism to work. Cheers Le 11 oct. 2015 11:50 PM, "Kevin Burton" a écrit : > I'm trying to open source a bunch of code in our stack. > > Is it possible to have a

publishing sub-modules without requiring the parent module to be published?

2015-10-11 Thread Kevin Burton
I'm trying to open source a bunch of code in our stack. Is it possible to have a parent module private, and the child module public? The problem I have now is that if our customers or the open source community imports our modules, it needs to fetch the parent, which is private. I assume this is