You can use the 3 Properties in any way you want it, their name suggest a certain content, and it was deemed necessary to restrict the expansion to a fixed set. so the 3 have been picked to give some guidance on what are sane modifiers.
You will most likely use revision for the Version and changelist or sha for the incremental builds, but you can also cram everything into revision, Maven does not really care how you use them (as long as you use nothing else) Gruss Bernd -- http://bernd.eckenfels.net ________________________________ From: Eric B <ebenza...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 3:12:21 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: Special <version> parameters - sha1 Following a long thread on this list, and a blog by khmarbaise ( http://blog.soebes.de/blog/2017/04/02/maven-pom-files-without-a-version-in-it/), I'm still a little confused as to exactly what is allowed in the special version tags for a maven pom. I know and realize that the 3 allowable tags are: - ${revision} - ${sha1} - ${changelist} However, from the thread and the blog, it seems that these properties cannot be dependent on any other properties. For example, this is fine: <version>${revision}-${sha1}</version> where mvn is called with -Drevision=1.2.3 -Dsha1=1a2b3c4e However, based on the further docs at https://maven.apache.org/maven-ci-friendly.html, this design would fail: <version>${revision}-${sha1}</version> <properties> <sha1>${buildNumber}</sha1> </properties> and call it as -Drevision=1.2.3 -DbuildNumber=99999 Is anyone able to shed some light as to why this would be the case? Why can a property not be used to compute on of the 3 special vars? My use case is that I want to supply the build number to all my builds, but only append it to the version if a specific profile is enabled. In my mind, it would be simple - make the sha1 property empty by default, and in my specific profile, set it to the buildnumber. But based on my understanding, this would fail. Is my only option in that case to design it as: <version>${artifactVersion}</version> <properties> <artifactVersion>${revision}</artifactVersion> </properties> <profile> <id>buildNumber</id> <properties> <artifactVersion>${revision}-${sha1}</artifactVersion> </properties> </profile> What is the reason for this limitation? Is there any chance that this limitation will be removed in the future? Thanks, Eric
