+1.
this is the major reason I won't be upgrading to maven 3.
I do think that versions should be fixed at maven deploy time - i.e., when
artifacts are deployed to the repository.
-Russ
At 5:21 AM -0700 3/26/11, bryan.dollery wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am also getting grief from maven for using variables in my version fields.
>For me, this is unavoidable. Let me explain...
>
>In my parent pom I have:
>
>${productVersion}
>
>And in my properties I have:
>
> 0-SNAPSHOT
> 13.0.${productRevision}
>
>On a developer's machine, this produces a version number of
>
> 13.0.0-SNAPSHOT
>
>Which is exactly what I want.
>
>However, in my hudson CI server, as part of the maven command I have:
>
> -DivpnRevision=$SVN_REVISION-nt3
>
>The $SVN_REVISION variable is provided by hudson. It contains the svn
>revision number that has just been built, and the '-nt3' bit is the
>environment it was built for.
>
>I do this because subversion is my revision control system and it, rightly,
>controls the revision number (the clue as to it's purpose is in it's name).
>This is not a job I want to hand off to maven, for many reasons.
>
>If I use maven 3 for my builds, then my IDEs (both eclipse and intellij) are
>totally messed up -- maven 3 messes up the classpath because it can't deal
>with the variables. So, I'm stuck on maven 2.
>
>Now, I don't see this as providing the slightest obstacle to my ability to
>get repeatable builds. Rather, it's the opposite -- if I want to repeat a
>build all I have to know is the subversion revision number of the build I
>want and I can check out that revision and rebuild to recreate an exact copy
>of the original.
>
>Just because maven thinks that an alternative approach is 'convention'
>doesn't mean that I shouldn't be able to achieve this. CoC is supposed to
>allow one the choice of following convention, but provide the ability to use
>configuration where the convention does not fit one's requirements.
>
>So, what to do?
>
>Bryan
>
>
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