Anders,
What other suggestion do you have for testing that a something works
with multiple versions of something else?
I completely agree that running 'install' let alone 'deploy' with a
profile that changes a version is a really bad idea. But it's an
effective mechanism for compatibility testing.
/benson
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote:
> Yes, but I still don't think this is a good idea for dependencies. What will
> happen is that the dependency declared in the pom being deploy is not what
> was used during build. Can lead to strange things IMO.
>
> /Anders
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:14, Kristian Rosenvold <
> kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The trick is to give the artifact a *default* version in properties so you
>> can override from the command line but still build without any command line
>> options;
>>
>> <properties>
>> <mygroup-myartifact.version>1.1</mygroup-myartifact.version>
>> <properties>
>>
>>
>> Then you can build with -Dmygroup-myartifact.version=1.2-SNAPSHOT
>>
>>
>> Kristian
>>
>> Den 15.04.2011 11:16, skrev Anders Hammar:
>>
>> Yes, it is. "-Dmygroup-myartifact.version=xxx"
>>>
>>> However, for your example it would be a very bad thing as your pom will
>>> not
>>> be consumable by any client.
>>>
>>> /Anders
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:37, Geir Gullestad Pettersen<gei...@gmail.com
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to inject properties into pom.xml from the command line at
>>>> runtime?
>>>>
>>>> consider this dependency:
>>>>
>>>> <dependencies>
>>>> <dependency>
>>>> <groupId>mygroup</groupId>
>>>> <artifactId>myartifact</artifactId>
>>>> <version>${mygroup-myartifact.version}</version>
>>>> <type>war</type>
>>>> </dependency>
>>>> </dependencies>
>>>>
>>>> ${mygroup-myartifact.version} can of course be set in the<properties>
>>>> tag,
>>>> but I need to be able to change the version number without changing
>>>> pom.xml.
>>>> This should peferrably be done from command line - is there a way to set
>>>> properties from commandline?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Geir
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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