On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Martin Höller <mar...@xss.co.at> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wednesday 20 October 2010 Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> > On 11 October 2010 21:48, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I could have sworn I've used ${localRepository} before but it doesn't
> > > seem to work. I've also tried ${settings.localRepository} and
> > > ${maven.repo.local}. How do I refer to the location of the local
> > > repository in a portable way? Is there a difference between Maven2 and
> > > Maven3?
> >
> > I had a look in the source code and found the following:
> >
> [...]
> > Is there some documentation on how properties are handled internally?
>
I don't know what is actually the prefered way of accessing the path to the
> local repository (but I'm quite sure I saw discussions about it on this
> list before). However, running your example pom.xml works as soon as I
> changed ${maven.local.repo} to ${settings.localRepository}. This is working
> with maven 2.2.1 and maven 3.0-beta-3.
I was wondering the same thing - and I just ended up creating my own custom
property.
If you find a built-in property, please let us know.
