> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 April 2004 22:13 > To: Maven Users List > Subject: RE: Maven and Development Process > > On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:38, Mark Langley wrote: > > If you use XML entities to define your version numbers rather than hard > > coding them in the project.xml files, the process of switching between > > snapshot and release versions becomes much easier. > > > > See http://wiki.codehaus.org/maven/EnsureProjectConsistencyWithEntities > for > > more details. > > Do a lot of people actually use this mechanism? > > Is it simply because maven1 doesn't support recursive inheritance?
Yes, mostly. > > Maven2 support recursive inheritance well so would anyone still really > need to use entities like this. Ultimately I suppose it doesn't matter > how the POM comes together but I would like support to come from Maven > itself and not the use of entities which I would consider a workaround. I agree with this. However I'm not sure recursive inheritance is enough. If we wish to support all use case, we'll need to support dependencies reference as several projects may want to share some references while they are not sharing exactly the same set of references. Putting all references at the top level would mean that several subprojects which do not need all these references will still inherit from them. -Vincent > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: April 15, 2004 1:46 PM > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: Re: Maven and Development Process > > > > Somewhat unfortunately (because it does amount to a lot of work), that > > is the current best practice, I believe. At any rate, this is exactly > > what we do. > > > > -john > > > > On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 12:12, Amato Massimiliano (TLAB) wrote: > > > Hello guys, > > > > > > I am trying to convert our system from Ant to Maven, I managed to > > succesfully migrate all the projects into Maven but right now i am > facing > > the problem of the development process integration. > > > > > > I saw there is a Snapshot feature that upload the latest build to the > > repository, but I am not really sure how does it work? > > > > > > >From my understanding if i am working on a project composed of > several > > sub-project, like i do, i need to set in each project.xml file the > version > > as x.y-dev and then install the articaft produced as install-snapshot or > > deploy-snapshot for the remote repo > > > > > > Now in each project that depends on that one, we need to update the > > version tag of the dependancy to SNAPSHOT and when we build, Maven > > automatically download the latest snapshot between the 2 that are in the > > local and remote repo > > > > > > When our development is completed we just need to change all the > > dependancy version number from snapshot to x.y and the main project.xml > > version from x.y-dev to x.y as well > > > > > > and there restart the cycle.... > > > > > > Is it correct or not? There is a better way to handle the development > > process? > > > > > > Thanks a ton for your help > > > Massimiliano > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > jvz. > > Jason van Zyl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://maven.apache.org > > happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will > elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come > and sit softly on your shoulder ... > > -- Thoreau > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
