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Adrian Shum commented on MNG-624:
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For all suggestion/workaround proposed here using a property for parent
version, they all suffer from one issue: This will work for build, but will
fail on using the result as dependency.
Assuming I have a very simple structure like this:
{code}
foo-parent
foo-lib
{code}
assume the POm of foo-lib contains
{code}
<parent>
<groupId>foo</groupId>
<artifactId>foo-parent</artifactId>
<version>${foo.version}</version>
<relativePath>../foo-parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
{code}
(foo.version can be provided by any means, by command line or by property
defined in parent etc)
Because Maven is deploying/installing the POM as-is. That means, if I put
foo-lib in the repository, when people is using it as dependency, the POM is
containing only ${foo.version} string literal as the parent version. There is
no way that it can resolve the correct parent POM to refer to.
May I suggests, instead of deploying the POM as-is, we are creating an
"effective" POM to use to deploy? In the "effective" POM, we have all necessary
properties replaced and use that for install/deploy.
> automatic parent versioning
> ---------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-624
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Inheritance and Interpolation
> Reporter: Brett Porter
> Assignee: Ralph Goers
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 3.2
>
> Attachments: MNG-624-maven-2.0.x-r507648.patch, MNG-624-tests.tar.gz
>
> Original Estimate: 4 hours
> Remaining Estimate: 4 hours
>
> (this may be bumped to 2.1 or even made WON't FIX as it is contentious - see
> MNG-521)
> currently, you have to specify the parent version when extending which makes
> a project stand alone very easily, but has the drawback of being a
> maintainance problem when you start development on a new version. Tools can
> help, but it would be nice not to have to rely on them.
> One alternative is to allow the parent version to be omitted, and when it is
> it is assumed you want the latest. The parent is used from the reactor or the
> universal source directory. IT may also be read from a LATEST in the
> repository though this is contentious - it may be better to simply fail in
> that environment and require builds be in a known checkout structure for
> building individual projects.
> This also introduces the need for tool support to populate the version on
> release and deployment for reproducibility.
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