this method works? I'm going to give it a try for certain. It sounds a little chicken-and-the-egg though .... does the top-level maven.xml copy the *.properties into the sub-projects, or do the sub-projects copy from ../*.properties themselves?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vincent Massol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Maven Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: RE: Any way to have shared properties when extending from a base project > Hi Colin, > > This is a known wanted feature (I also want it dearly). Check JIRA. It's > scheduled for 1.1. If you want it faster, please send a patch and I'll > gladly apply it :-) > > As a workaround on my work project, we have a custom maven.xml goal that > copies the top level project.properties to the current project you're > building. That means of course that you have to put all properties at > the top level. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Colin Sampaleanu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 19 September 2003 20:30 > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: Any way to have shared properties when extending from a base > > project > > > > I just realized that while you can extend a project with something > like > > extend>${basedir}/../master/project.xml</extend> > > maven doesn't seem to read in build.properties (and project.properties > > either I guess) from the master project. This is a real PITA, as I > don't > > want to force people to put identical build.properties files in all > the > > subprojects, and it's not acceptible to have a build.properties file > in > > the user directory, as it will trample the version for other projects. > > > > I think I'm missing something, as this is a big hole. What are other > > people doing in this situation? > > > > Regards, > > Colin > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
