I don't think that you approach is good. If you want it to happen together with release:perform, it MUST happen after deploy as the deploy to the repo could fail. If that fails, you mustn't update any project depending on it as it doesn't exist in the repo. Also, if you're using some kind of staging (like in Nexus Pro), you simply can't do this update until the artifact has been promoted/released.
Also, your comment about updating "module projects" in your repo. I assume you're talking about the artifacts in the maven repo? They must never be changed, so don't do this! If I were you, I would perform this update dependencies as a completely separate activity after the release has been fully completed. Including staging and whatever it would include. Everything doesn't have to be bound to the Maven build. Some things are more appropriate to perform as a separate step. /Anders On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 15:41, Ben Tatham <bentat...@nanometrics.ca> wrote: > Hi, > We have a custom plugin that runs whenever we release a project. Most of > our projects are _not_ multi-module, so it generally works fine by adding > that plugin to the release-plugin <goals>. However, when I add that into > the root pom of a multi-module build, it only runs on the top-level > project, even though the modules inherit from that pom and do declare > maven-release-plugin so in theory, it should pick up that configuration. > > Is there a way to force the plugin to run in each module during release? > I've explored options on the plugin itself [1] and options on the > maven-release-plugin[2] , but can't find anything about this issue. > > Specifically, our plugin goes through our scm repository and updates the > dependencies in all our designated pom's to the newly released version of > the project being released - so we also want the module projects to get > updated in our repository. > > Thanks, > Ben > > [1] http://maven.apache.org/developers/mojo-api-specification.html > [2] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/perform-mojo.html > > -- > Ben Tatham > Software Developer > Nanometrics Inc. > +1 613-592-6776 x254 > http://www.nanometrics.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
