On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With copy, you declare the needed artifact in the plugin configuration. > From Maven's PoV there's no dependency between the module that copies and > one being copied. Right. OK. > That means Maven can choose to build those two modules in > any order. Sure. Oh, I see; I would have thought this would be obvious. > If copied is built before copier, all is well, copied will be > resolved from the reactor. However, if copier is built first, it'll pick > copied from the local cache (or remote repo) and won't have the proper > version/content (assuming SNAPSHOT, of course). > I see. > All of this us avoided with copy-dependencies, because it uses the module's > dependencies, so copier *depends* on copied and they'll always be built in > the correct order. > Nice; thanks for the clarification. Best, Laird -- http://about.me/lairdnelson