On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Andrew Birchall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wish to use the latest archetype plugin, 2.0-alpha-2 (I think that's > the latest, although one's never quite sure in the mysterious world of > Maven!) Are you following the announcements mailing list? The plugins page also has versions listed: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/index.html What could we do better? [Archetype is perhaps not our best example right now, the documentation does not exactly match the release.] > However when I run mvn archetype:genearte it uses the 1.0-alpha-4 > version and subsequently can't find this goal. > > Even if I delete this plugin from my local repository maven still > downloads the 1.0-alpha-4 version and attempts to use that. (Note: not > even the 1.0-alpha-7 version!) How did you delete it? You'll need to delete the entire maven-archetype-plugin directory including the metadata and all the versions. > The documentation states that the default behaviour of Maven is to use > the latest version of a plugin. > > How can I get Maven to download and use the latest archetype automatically? It should Just Work. 2.0-alpha-2 is in the central repo and the maven-metadata.xml correctly lists that version as the latest: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/ Are you using a mirror or an internal repository? If so, check the metadata file, it may be incorrect. To force it, use the version number on the command line. Something like: mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-2:create ... -- Wendy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
