It seems a good solution to me. M.
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 14:30 -0400, Marshall Schor wrote: > I have a bunch of project that execute some common build steps. > > I factored these out into a parent-pom, and change the projects to > specify this as their parent. > > My parent-pom is of package-type "pom". > > The problem I'm having is that the factored-out build steps run when I > do "mvn install" on the parent-pom to get it into my local repo. These > steps don't work and throw errors, when run here. > > So I fixed this with a kludge - and I'm hoping to learn a better way. > My kludge: > > I moved the build steps into a profile, and activated the profile on the > absence of a file, named something like > "marker-file-identifying-parent-pom-XXX". And then, I put a dummy file > of that name into the parent project. This keeps the pom from running > the build steps in the parent, but makes those steps available to the > children. > > Is there a better way? > > -Marshall Schor > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
