Hi Dave,
I typically don't want child projects to have a version different from
the parent. If I did, I probably wouldn't organize them as subprojects.
So for my subprojects, I omit the version attribute in their POM. That
way they inherit the version from the parent.
As for dependencies, I do this in A's pom if A depends on B:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>${pom.parent.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>B</artifactId>
<version>${pom.parent.version}</version>
</dependency>
...
Make sense?
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: David C. Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:30 PM
To: users@maven.apache.org
Subject: release-plugin, inheritance, and dependencies
Hi,
I've got a bit of a quandry with respect to release:prepare that I hope
someone can shed some light on.
Assume that we have a parent project called "Master." Projects A, B,
and C all inherit from Master, and Master contains module declarations
for all three so that they can be built as a single unit. Projects B
and C depend on project A. So, if you can imagine the POMs, Master has
a version and so do projects A, B, and C. Additionally, all three child
projects refer to Master's version in the <parent> tag. Also, Projects
B and C refer to Project A's version in their dependencies list.
Now, I perform release:prepare on Master. The version of the Master POM
is updated properly, as are the <parent><version> tag references in
projects A, B, and C. However, the versions of projects A, B and C
don't appear to be altered and the dependencies in projects B and C
definitely do not get changed to refer to the new version of project A.
It's entirely possible that I've got something way-bad wrong being
rather new to all this. Can someone either spell out how this SHOULD
work, or point me to a resource that describes it? It's near impossible
to find information about this since the keywords "maven", "release",
and "version" show up in a go-zillion places. :-)
Thanks,
Dave
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