RE: Passing version number to install ant task

[Bhatia, Naresh \(IS Consultant\)]

> I am using Antlib for Maven 2.0 to install bunch of jar files to my
> local maven repository. Is there any way to specify the version number
> of these jars in my ant task instead of the pom files? The reason I
> ask is that the version nuber is available in my ant script at the
> time of a build, whereas it is not convenient (or elegant) to change
> the version numbers in each one of the POM files during the build.
> 
> Here's a sample of how I am invoking the ant task to install a jar:
> 
>     <artifact:install file="${lib.dir}/entities-${build.version}.jar"
> pomRefId="entities.pom"/>
> 
> What I would really like is
> 
>     <artifact:install file="${lib.dir}/entities-${build.version}.jar"
> pomRefId="entities.pom" version="${build.version}"/>
> 
> Thanks.
> Naresh
> 
P.S. I posted this yesterday but apparently it never got pushed to the
list. My apologies if you receive this post twice.