Christian Clausen wrote: > I suddenly realize that we use the two different styles of snapshot versions: > You're talking about timestamped jars created with jar:deploy-snapshot while I'm > talking about jars of a project with version x.y-SNAPSHOT (in project.xml) and > deployed with jar:deploy. When using the style of snapshot version that I use, > it's (of course) possible to have multiple multiple "snapshot versions" (one for > each branch).
I'm very sorry for the confusion I've caused. I was not aware that versions named <whatever>SNAPSHOT are considered snapshots by the dependency verifier - I was positive that verbatim 'SNAPSHOT' version triggers the check-on-each-build processing. It's generally a good thing that snapshot per version is supported, and this is the direction that I hope maven is going to take, but the implementation is at best incomplete ATM. In the future, <artifact-type>:deploy-snapshot should retain the version information on the timestamped files (+ in the associated metadata file(s)), and dependency specification format should be changed in a way that makes in possible to state a 'snapshot' dependency leaving the version attribute intact. > In your case, there is another option for allowing multiple > snapshots, if you don't like to change the artifact names to > <artifact>-<branch>: Use different groups for different branches. So if <group> > is your group, then your branched group could be named <group>-<branch>. True enough, it's possible to get this behaviour this way, but I'd still opt for artifact renaming -- you don't usually branch your organization when you want to split your codebase into stabled & development branches :-). I think of it this way - 'tomcat' group could deliver tomcat-3, tomcat-4, and tomcat-5 artifacts, that are both legitimate branches of the same product and should have distict 'snapshot' versions. R. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
