Wow. Thanks for the very insightful approach. It's kind of a very invasive one in changing "code", but one that I may very well need to use if I keep having to cut a release of our project that depends on these SNAPSHOTs.
-Matthew nick_stolwijk wrote: > > Another solution is to check out the release manager and remove that > phase from the components.xml and release an own version of the release > manager and release plugin. It is not a nice way, though. > > Hth, > > Nick Stolwijk > > 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] >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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#a12278070 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
