probably the docs need to define the version of the plugin Anyway I'm going to release alpha-7 fixed
On 8/30/07, Tommy Knowlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a (not-so-funny?) anecdote... > > I have been using Maven in the shop that pays my salary, for better > than 8 months now. > Just today, my friend who works for another company close by, he > asked me "have you ever used Maven?" > > I explained how Maven has greatly helped with my company's software > modularizing effort, but also how sometimes it's too inflexible, > sometimes stuff breaks out from under you due to no fault of your > own, etc. He decided to try it out. I pointed him at a couple of > online resources that I have tended to use pretty heavily, and about > a half hour later, he IM'd me because maven-archetype-plugin was > reporting "2 required artifacts are missing." > > After proving that "it works on my box" I decided to update our > mirror of central (my company uses an internal mirror of Maven's > central, which was a few days out of date). Before that was finished, > though, I decided to check this mailing list... > > Having tracked down the problem to this plugin update, my friend's > response was, "Yeah... now I'm beginning to suspect that it's overly > complicated for what I'm trying to do I mean, it sounds nice, but > knowing that this stuff may be trash in a week or two when the > direction changes..." > > FWIW, I might suggest that this is a lesson useful to the whole Maven > community. Also, I realize that this version of the maven-archetype- > plugin is marked as an "alpha" release, but when the tool chooses the > alpha-level plugin by default, maybe that's a design decision that > could use a revisit... > > again, I say, "FWIW", > \Tommy > > > On 29 Aug 2007, at 16:01 , Wayne Fay wrote: > > > Carlos, we've got a bad pom: > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/archetype/maven- > > archetype/1.0-alpha-6/maven-archetype-1.0-alpha-6.pom > > > > Its pointing to 1.0-alpha-5 for model, core, creator which of course > > does not exist. > > > > Also the metadata in core, model, creator all have 1.0-alpha-5 in > > <version/>. > > > > Wayne > > -- I could give you my word as a Spaniard. No good. I've known too many Spaniards. -- The Princess Bride --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
