Well, I guess it was decided at some point as a good default behavior. Changing a default behavior is not good as it will trick people when upgrading. But you can always disable this in the pluginManagement section (via the generateBackupPoms param) of your project. http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/set-mojo.html#generateBackupPoms
/Anders On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 13:57, Wim Deblauwe <wim.debla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder why the versions-maven-plugin generates backup poms by default? I > would assume that 95% of maven users also uses some kind of version control > system, so I really don't see the need for that. > > regards, > > Wim >
