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Dimitar Dimitrov commented on MNG-2577: --------------------------------------- I spent half a day trying to achieve the setup described in 'Better Builds with Maven' chapter 7.2 It could have been a good idea to document what is actually implemented and what is just a neat idea. That said, is there any reason for not including this patch into the next minor release? > Allow interpolation of Properties in settings.xml > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-2577 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2577 > Project: Maven 2 > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Settings > Affects Versions: 2.0.4, 2.0.5 > Reporter: Michael Locher > Priority: Critical > Attachments: DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java.diff > > > the attached patch (against 2.0.4) allows interpolation of system properties > into the .m2/settings.xml > and interpolation of system properties and the properties of profiles found > in .m2/settings.xml (if they are activeByDefault) into conf/settings.xml > these features are necessary in order to propagate user account settings > defined in user-specific .m2/settings.xml into server sections of the > institution-wide conf/settings.xml -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira