It's for reproducibility. You need to be able to check out the tag and
build it again.

- Brett

On 1/23/06, Mike Perham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't understand why release:prepare fails if you depend on a plugin
> snapshot.  That makes no sense.  You should not depend on snapshots for
> compile/test/runtime dependencies but plugins are a build-time
> dependency and so should have no affect on a release.  Once something is
> released, it is never built again.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 12:24 PM
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: Re: [m2] Next maven-war-plugin release?
>
> The project doesn't depend on a plugin from within the <dependencies>
> section of the pom.  I had to add this
>
>       <plugin>
>         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
>         <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
>         <version>2.0-beta-3-SNAPSHOT</version>
>       </plugin>
>
> in the <build><plugins> to make m2 use the right version of the
> maven-war-plugin.  Without that, it will use the released version which
> doesn't have the overlaying feature which I need.
>
> Rich
>
> Mike Perham wrote:
> > Why is your project depending on a plugin???  The project should be
> > configuring and using the plugin but not depending on it (i.e. it
> > should not be listed in <build><dependencies>).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:54 PM
> > To: Maven Users List
> > Subject: [m2] Next maven-war-plugin release?
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm just wondering when we can expect the next release of the
> > maven-war-plugin.  Right now I have a webapp project that depends on
> > another webapp project and uses the functionality of the snapshot
> > maven-war-plugin to be able to inherit stuff (JSPs, images, etc.) from
>
> > the 1st webapp.  I want to do a release of my project with the
> > maven-release-plugin but it won't let me since there is a dependency
> > on a snapshot.
> >
> > Any ideas when we can expect a release?  Is there a way I can override
>
> > this behavior in the meantime?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rich
> >
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