What is the point of putting a settings.xml in your SCM next to your pom.xml? In this case just add the repos in the root pom.
++ Julien ----- Mail original ----- > De : Milos Kleint <mkle...@gmail.com> > À : Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org> > Cc : > Envoyé le : Lundi 1 Août 2011 21h02 > Objet : Re: [DISCUSS] Project local setting.xml > > hasn't that been the purpose of profiles.xml files back in 2.x before > it was removed for 3.x? > > Milos > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Paul Gier <pg...@redhat.com> wrote: >> I'd like to discuss the possibility of Maven automatically looking for > a >> project specific settings.xml file [1]. The main use case for this is >> to eliminate, or at least reduce, the need to add repositories to the >> poms. A setting.xml file could simply be added into scm into the root >> directory of the project. Then it would be checked out when the project >> is checked out. >> >> With multi-module projects, Maven would need to search up the directory >> tree to find the settings.xml file, but this could be made relatively >> simple by checking the parent dirs until Maven finds: >> (1) a settings.xml, (2) a directory with no pom.xml, or (3) the root >> directory >> >> The only problem I can think of in this case would be when small related >> projects can be checked out separately (similar to Maven plugins, or >> codehaus mojo). The project might not be able to find the settings.xml >> if it is not checked out with the project. Although I think this is a >> relatively minor issue. >> >> [1]http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4686 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
