Our solution was to stop synchronizing release versions of dependencies.
We were perfectly happy using software from third parties (Apache,
Spring, etc.) with different versions and ceased to see any reason why
version 1.10 of the WAR file could not depend on version 1.8 of one of
our jar files if, in fact, 1.8 was the correct code for 1.10 of our release.
Once we got over the block in our minds, it worked very well.
As a side benefit, we could also quickly see what modules had actually
changed in each release. If the jar had a 1.10.x version, then it had
changed; if it was 1.9, then the new release had not required a change
in that part of the code.
We had 80+ projects making up the application so the reduction in
workload was appreciated.
It also made it easier to understand the scope of a new release since we
took an hour at the start of the release cycle and identified the affect
expected on each module so that I had a pretty good idea about the work
that was going to be required and the number of project tasks that were
about to start up.
Ron
On 30/07/2013 11:10 AM, Nestor Urquiza wrote:
Hi guys,
We use two aggregator projects to release two WAR applications which have
some shared JAR projects.
This aggregators are not parents. Strictly speaking the JAR projects do not
reference back the aggregators.
As a developer I would like to set a release version not only for the
aggregator but for all modules it references.
It looks like the below command will only change the version for the
aggregator project. Apparently the only way to make the modules change
their version as well will be to make the aggregator a real parent. This
would demand us having really two parents for certain JARS while not for
others. Definitely inheritance is not the way to go but aggregation. This
command will not fail with an ERROR but the modules will not get updated.
<pre>
mvn clean install versions:set -DnewVersion=2.12345678.0
</pre>
It looks like the below command is not working:
<pre>
mvn -U release:update-versions -DdevelopmentVersion=2.12345679.0
</pre>
As I get:
Required goal not found: release:update-versions in
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.0-beta-8
I have found some archives about the subject but no real solution to this
problem so far.
Thanks in advance,
- Nestor Urquiza
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