Thanks for the workaround. You are right -- that could get really tedious in following the thread of SNAPSHOTs. I will give it a try. But I really wish there were an option to flat out "override" the release plugin to acknowledge "I'm doing something really dangerous but let me do it anyway"...
-Matthew Steven Rowe wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > I have gotten around this problem by deploying the SNAPSHOT projects in > question to an internal repository, after first renaming their versions > from X.X.X-SNAPSHOT to X.X.X-myco-X (or something similar). This can > get messy, since SNAPSHOTs sometimes depend on other SNAPSHOTs, and > those have to also be fixed in the respective POMs. But it works. And > it's worth it - maven-release-plugin rocks! > > Steve > > Matthew McCullough wrote: >> Mavenites, >> >> I have a project in which we depend on SNAPSHOTs. Unfortunately, three >> of >> them are not actively being developed at the moment, however we still >> have >> to use them. I realize it is a very bad practice to depend on these >> since >> you never know what is going to be changed. However, is there any way I >> can >> override release:prepare from FORCING me to have all dependencies as >> non-snapshots? >> >> I've reviewed all the documentation I can find on: >> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/examples/prepare-release.html >> and cannot find anything that seems to allow overriding this behavior of >> requiring all concrete version numbers for dependencies. >> >> Thanks for any pointers. >> >> Matthew McCullough >> Ambient Ideas, LLC >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.ambientideas.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can-mvn-release%3Aprepare-be-overridden-to-allow-SNAPSHOTs--tf4312271s177.html#a12278067 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
