It can never work for project/version or for project/parent/version as they need to be defined even before the initialize phase
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Manuel EVENO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I once use maven-property-plugin > http://arsenalist.com/2007/02/07/maven-properties-plugin-download/ > > but I don't if it works for project/version ... > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Stephen Connolly < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Property expansion in ./project/version and /project/parent/version is > not > > supported by Maven 2 (and AFAIK will never be supported as it makes > builds > > irreproducible) > > > > Yes, I know that it currently kinda works if you remember to define the > > property in the command line or settings.xml... but it is not officially > > supported > > > > -Stephen > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Carlos Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all. > > > > > > I've been searching along both google and mailing list archives without > > > answer and I'm thinking that there's no possibility to achieve what I > > want. > > > > > > The question is: can I define some property for my pom.xml as a > variable > > > i.e. <version>${version}</version> and have it set up from an external > > > properties file? (neither profile nor settings.xml) > > > I already know that, by filtering resources there's a chance to perform > > > this whithin resource files, but I don't know if I can do it in the > pom. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Carlos. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >
