Re: misleading docmentation

[Arnaud Héritier <ah...@apache.org>]

Hi Nir

  Thanks for your feedback.
  I admit that I really hate when the property name is different than the
configuration parameter but it seems properly defined in the doc :

*allowTimestampedSnapshots:*
Whether to allow timestamped SNAPSHOT dependencies. Default is to fail when
finding any SNAPSHOT.

   - *Type*: boolean
   - *Since*: 2.0-beta-7
   - *Required*: No
   - *User Property*: ignoreSnapshots
   - *Default*: false


http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/prepare-mojo.html#allowTimestampedSnapshots

You have to use
<allowTimestampedSnapshots>true</allowTimestampedSnapshots> in the plugin
configuration but -DignoreSnapshots=true in command line in that case


Regards

PS : I moved the discussion to the user dev mailing list where you receive
more help than directly from few commiters




On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Nir Bar-on <lu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I found misleading documentation in maven release plugin.
> it took me hours find it ..and to solve my issue because documentation was
> wrong .. i was about to drop the use of the plugin and start to think on
> another way to do "release.."
>
> the issue is that on documentation for the goal release:prepare, the
> parameter name is *"allowTimestampedSnapshots"*
> but it doesn't have any effect in case you have snapshot dependency.
> because on the source code of the plugin the value of the parameter name is
>
> * "ignoreSnapshots"*
>
>  the fix can be changing the documentation ..or changing the parameter
> name in the code
>
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
> resouces
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-
> project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-
> maven/3959507#3959507
>
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-maven/3959507#3959507>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/release/tags/maven-
> release-2.5.3/maven-release-plugin/src/main/java/org/
> apache/maven/plugins/release/PrepareReleaseMojo.java?view=markup
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-maven/3959507#3959507>
>
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-maven/3959507#3959507>
>
> Please confirm that this will be fixed ...
> Thanks!
> Nir
>
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-maven/3959507#3959507>
>
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-maven/3959507#3959507>
>
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-maven/3959507#3959507>
>
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245932/how-to-release-a-project-which-depends-on-a-3rd-party-snapshot-project-in-maven/3959507#3959507>
>
>


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Arnaud