Hello Wayne,
   Thanks for the information. I will take a look at that plugin.

Regards,
Mark



Wayne Fay wrote:
> 
> The release plugin solves most people's version issues.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 10/15/07, Mark_E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>  I have been using Maven for about a month now and I really like it
>> however, I am having an issue with setting jar versions and I was looking
>> for suggestions on how other people do it.
>>
>> I basically have a pom for each project I build. In the pom.xml I have
>> the
>> dependencies. We typically version jars here with a 4 digit number so
>> they
>> change each build, unlike say 1.1-SNAPSHOT.
>>
>> So that I do not have to set the dependency versions in each POM, I
>> listed
>> all the versions of the jars in the settings.xml. This has been working
>> good
>> such that I only have to set the version in 1 spot when I do a build
>>
>> Where I run into problems is when I try to build a jar that depends on
>> one I
>> just build and installed in maven. What happens is it gets the pom.xml
>> for
>> that jar I just built and because the pom.xml has variables assigned to
>> the
>> version (which are defined in the settings.xml) I gets confused and says
>> it
>> cannot find the jar version. It does not resolve the variable.
>>
>> If after I build a jar, I go and delete the pom that it adds to the
>> repository then I try to build another jar that depends on that jar I
>> just
>> built, it build fine.
>>
>> Log story short, I probably have the jar versions in the wrong place. I
>> figure they should go in a parent pom but with the parent pom, I have to
>> add
>> it to maven after each update. I suppose I could do that with a simple
>> script but I was just looking for input on how others do this.
>>
>> Besides that issue, I have been using Maven 2.0 and testing Continuum
>> with
>> it and it seems to work well.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mark
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