On 5/12/10 2:04 PM, Compere, Lydie wrote: > Thank you for your help and sorry about the "ultra newbie" mistakes. Didn't mean to suggest this was a newbie mistake. The bits of Maven which do forked execution are always a bit tricky.
And, to make my point, I completely forgot about passing the arguments parameter. You should be able to do -Darguments="-Dmy.parameter=my.value" (note the quotes!) Justin > > In my case though, the value I need to receive at the commandline is never > the same... > > I'll try release:perform -X to get more info and troubleshoot from there. Thx > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Edelson [mailto:justinedel...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:53 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: release:perform ignores commandline parameters even with > -Darguments > > First off, release:prepare isn't a phase, it's a goal. > > Secondly, my guess is that you're misdiagnosing the problem. Running > release:perform with -X would confirm this. Instead, what I think is > happening is that your command line properties aren't being passed to the > forked Maven instance. Take a look at > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/examples/perform-release.html. > > There isn't, AFAIK, a way to pass through command-line properties from > release:perform to the forked instance. Instead, what you should do is create > a profile and set the properties you want set during a release and then > include the profile name in the releaseProfiles property of the release > plugin. > > HTH, > Justin > > > > On 5/12/10 10:48 AM, Compere, Lydie wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I seem to be having a problem with the release:perform plugin. >> >> I need to send a parameter at the commandline such as >> -Dmy.parameter=my.value. >> >> When I do so with every other phase, it is taken into account and works fine >> (even in the release:prepare phase where I use mvn release:prepare >> -Dmy.parameter=my.value -Darguments="-Dmy.parameter=my.value"). >> >> When I try with mvn release:perform -Dmy.parameter=my.value >> -Darguments="-Dmy.parameter=my.value", it does not work. The >> release:perform acts as if the parameter was never sent. >> >> I've searched the web for such a problem but haven't been able to find an >> answer. >> >> Can anybody help please? >> >> Using Maven 2.2.1, using maven-release-plugin version 2.0 >> >> Thanks! >> >> "Be the change that you want to see in the world"- Mohandas Karamchand >> Gandhi >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
