I suspect that there is a reasonable way to adjust the builds in Maven such that they robustly support Continuous Delivery. I know that Jason van Zyl has started looking at CD as well.
On the Google forum <http://groups.google.com/group/continuousdelivery/browse_thread/thread/c8440681058f2db8> Chris Hilton commented: 3. In my ideal world, I would probably either extend the release plugin or write a new one with functionality to take a snapshot artifact and make it a release artifact, which would still introduce slight changes but pretty mild ones. I thought I had read a feature request or wish list about this, but can't find it now. The current Maven release plugin, as it is, was not designed to handle the notion of CD. So it does make sense to tailor this aspect of releasing Maven artifacts to better support CD. Also a quick examination of the Maven versions plugin shows that it has facilities to handle updating versions of projects and their dependencies. So it looks as if it is more a matter of adjustment of Maven build to produce a result that aligns with CD than a matter of Maven not being suitable for CD. I think that the main stumbling block is SNAPSHOTS because they inherently are not releasable -- part of the process of releasing with the current Maven release plugin is to fail when there are SNAPSHOT dependencies. Another clear requirement for any changes to Maven or its build behavior is that the current behavior must be maintained for the many projects that haven't embraced (or won't embrace) Continuous Delivery. So I imagine a Maven build's behavior being altered through configuration (or a switch of some sort) to comply with the desired behavior inherent in Continuous Delivery with respect to the release of artifacts. The major difference would appear to be with the SNAPSHOT dependencies and the Maven release process. Other aspects of Maven are for the most part already good as they are for CD. This is an interesting challenge that I am sure is best served by a thorough examination by the Maven and CD experts out there. -- View this message in context: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Continuous-Delivery-and-Maven-tp3245370p3254121.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
