I've read through Karl's blog (http://blog.soebes.de/blog/ 2017/04/02/maven-pom-files-without-a-version-in-it/), and while I understand the approach, there is still one critical issue that bothers me. I think this actually reopens an old thread that circulated on this list a few months ago, but it related to the Idempotence of a pom file.
>From my perspective/view a pom file should be idempotent. That is every single build of a given NON-SNAPSHOT pom file should finish with the same build. But by moving a release number or version number outside of the pom, it eliminates this need. Furthermore, from a traceability perspective, my source control can no longer show me precisely version was being built/developed at any given time. By leveraging the mvn.config file, I'm a little further down the path, but none the less, the value can be overridden at build time with a completely different value. Consequently, I can still not be 100% confident that a pom delivered a particular version. I'm still not 100% sure of the best approach going forward, but I'm thinking that something like the version-plugin being able to manipulate a revision property that can then be committed as part of the pom would be the best of both approaches. In that way, my developers can fix the version number, but my build system can manipulate the revision property. Does anyone know if there is a plugin that will allow for that? Thanks, Eric On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > How about everybody read their mail? > (see below) > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 6:10 PM Curtis Rueden <ctrue...@wisc.edu> wrote: > > > Hi Dan, Karl & everyone, > > > > > See Karl's Blog > > > > Link, please? > > > […] > > > > > > On 03/05/17 20:39, Dan Tran wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Hi > > > > >> > > > > >> I have been experimenting with suggestion from Karl [1] with small > > > multi > > > > >> module maven project. > > […] > > > > > >> [1] > > > > >> http://blog.soebes.de/blog/2017/04/02/maven-pom-files-withou > > > > >> t-a-version-in-it/ > > >
