Jeff,
I believe I address your concern, which I share, of build
reproducibility by including a version number on the imported profile's
artifact, essentially making it behave like a dependency.
Below is the example, which was in my original post.
***
* POM of project which imports the profiles cargo_tomcat_remote and
* cargo_jetty_remote and selenium-integration-test.
***
<project>
...
<groupId>com.foo.applications</groupId>
<artifactId>webapp_1</artifactId>
...
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>cargo_tomcat_remote</id>
<groupId>com.foo.profiles</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<activation>
...
</activation>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>cargo_jetty_remote</id>
<groupId>com.foo.profiles</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<!-- used activation rules in imported profile -->
...
</profile>
<profile>
<id>selenium-integration-test</id>
<groupId>com.foo.profiles</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<!-- used activation rules in imported profile -->
...
</profile>
</project>
Paul Spencer
Jeff Jensen wrote:
One consideration of this though is build reproducibility. While it is
inconvenient to update all projects depending on the parent POM, it
facilitates build reproducibility, as the profiles are then correctly
versioned. A "shared resource" is not usually setup to facility a
reproducible build. What that means is consider the importance of
reproducible builds vs the effort to manage parent pom releases vs keeping
them separate in their own respective poms.
-----Original Message-----
From: Armin Ehrenfels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 11:02 AM
To: Maven Users List
Subject: Re: Can a POM import a profile from anothe POM?
Paul Spencer wrote:
Armin,
I did not know about profiles.xml, but this does not meet my
requirements. Since I used Continuum on a different server in
addition to developers on Windows and Unix machine, the use of
symbolic links will not work.
Indeed, my suggestion is not helpful in your particular case. The idea
of having a "central" profile resource available in a development
community sounds interesting to me. Maybe, you should formulate an
improvement to maven such as being able to access a network wide profile
resource via URL.
Good luck.
Armin
Paul Spencer
Armin Ehrenfels wrote:
Paul Spencer wrote:
I am finding that profiles are very powerful. As I make more use of
them across projects, many of which are unrelated, I find myself
copying a profile from one POM to another. Placing profiles in a
POM the is extended is impractical because each change to a profile
in the POM will prompt a release cycle of the POM and every project
that extends the POM.
Thus my question, is their a way of importing a profile from another
POM?
Hi Paul,
you don't need to import a profile. You can store it in a separate
file called profiles.xml, located in the same directory as your
pom.xml. Maven automatically looks for this file. If you work with an
UNIX OS, you probably know symbolic links, so locating a single
profiles.xml at a particular place and pointing to it from every
module directory is very easy.
HTH
Armin
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