Hi Stefan, The reason that we don't have one master POM as a parent to all other POMs is that we have multiple different products, all under independant source control. These products may want to have differing master POMs. Also, we will be overriding the central repository location in the global settings.xml. Without the repository you won't be able to retrieve the master POM.
The solution we have decided upon is to use a software distribution management tool from Symantec (LiveState) which can be used to automatically push the latest configuration for Maven directly onto developers machines (even upgrade Maven itself if necessary). This requires no manual work to be done from the developers point of view. Matt -----Original Message----- From: VUB Stefan Seidel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 February 2008 13:42 To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Updating M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml Put <maven-install-dir>/conf/settings.xml on a shared drive, or replace it with a symlink to a shared drive. Why do you need to change the settings.xml anyway? Could it not be done in a master pom that is the parent to all other poms? Then you can simply deploy the master pom and you're done. Stefan Matthew Tordoff wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wondered if anyone has any best practises for updating the global > settings.xml in Maven. I have considered checking the conf folder into SVN, > or even potentially checking the whole maven install into SVN, then when > changes are made send out an email and people can just do an SVN update to > pick up the changes. The only disadvantage of this process is that it relies > on people reading their mail and kicking off the update. I would preferably > like a method of automatically publishing changes which would automatically > update all developers machines. > > Any thoughts around this would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Matt > > P.S. I would also be interested on your views regarding checking in solely > the settings.xml file into version control, vs checking in the whole install. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Free games, great prizes - get gaming at Gamesbox. > http://www.searchgamesbox.com -- best regards, Stefan Seidel software developer ________________________ VUB Printmedia GmbH Chopinstraße 4 D-04103 Leipzig Germany tel. +49 (341) 9 60 50 07 fax. +49 (341) 9 60 50 92 mail. [EMAIL PROTECTED] web. www.vub.de HRB Köln 24015 UStID DE 122 649 251 GF Dr. Achim Preuss Neudorf, Dr. Christian Preuss Neudorf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Share what Santa brought you https://www.mycooluncool.com
