Re: To use version for maven.plugins or not to use, that is the question :)

[Justin Edelson <ju...@gmail.com>]

Yes - use a version.

Set up an organizational pom and use it as the parent for all of your
projects. Use the pluginManagement section of the organizational pom to
declare plugin versions.

Unless you do this, your builds aren't fully reproduceable.

Justin

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Qureshi,Shahzad [Ontario] <
Shahzad.Qureshi@ec.gc.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wanna know the standard and the reasons behind it.
>
> I want to find out if I should specify a version for a maven plugins, lets
> say maven-javadoc-plugin, or not to specify it and in which case the default
> one will be used. At this point, I don't specify versions
>
> I recently setup Nexus at my work and started seeing all these errors where
> Nexus wouldn't find snapshot version for plugins, maven-javadoc-plugin being
> one of them. The maven-javadoc-plugin is at 2.6.2-SNAPSHOT right now, but my
> settings.xml is not setup to take care of this scenario.
>
> It seems that I've to do what example 14.2 at this link:
> http://svn.sonatype.org/m2eclipse/trunk/org.maven.ide.eclipse.book/book/ch14s03.htmlsays
>
> And in which case I've to use -Ppublic-snapshots flag during my packaging.
>
> Now what is the general standard in a case like this? I can easily do what
> the link above suggests or just specify a version. I've reservations with
> both of them and see advantages for both of them as well.
>
> What do the gurus suggest? :)
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Shahzad Qureshi
> Systems Analyst/Programmer
> Applications Directorate | La direction générale des applications
> Chief Information Officer Branch | Direction générale du dirigeant
> principal de l'information
> Environment Canada | Environnement Canada
> shahzad.qureshi@ec.gc.ca
> Telephone | Téléphone 416-739-4702
> Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada
> Website | Site Web www.ec.gc.ca
>
>

Re: To use version for maven.plugins or not to use, that is the question :)

[Anders Hammar <an...@hammar.net>]

And Maven 3 will also complain (well, inform) about this.

/Anders

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 22:09, Justin Edelson <ju...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes - use a version.
>
> Set up an organizational pom and use it as the parent for all of your
> projects. Use the pluginManagement section of the organizational pom to
> declare plugin versions.
>
> Unless you do this, your builds aren't fully reproduceable.
>
> Justin
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Qureshi,Shahzad [Ontario] <
> Shahzad.Qureshi@ec.gc.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wanna know the standard and the reasons behind it.
> >
> > I want to find out if I should specify a version for a maven plugins,
> lets
> > say maven-javadoc-plugin, or not to specify it and in which case the
> default
> > one will be used. At this point, I don't specify versions
> >
> > I recently setup Nexus at my work and started seeing all these errors
> where
> > Nexus wouldn't find snapshot version for plugins, maven-javadoc-plugin
> being
> > one of them. The maven-javadoc-plugin is at 2.6.2-SNAPSHOT right now, but
> my
> > settings.xml is not setup to take care of this scenario.
> >
> > It seems that I've to do what example 14.2 at this link:
> >
> http://svn.sonatype.org/m2eclipse/trunk/org.maven.ide.eclipse.book/book/ch14s03.htmlsays
> >
> > And in which case I've to use -Ppublic-snapshots flag during my
> packaging.
> >
> > Now what is the general standard in a case like this? I can easily do
> what
> > the link above suggests or just specify a version. I've reservations with
> > both of them and see advantages for both of them as well.
> >
> > What do the gurus suggest? :)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > Shahzad Qureshi
> > Systems Analyst/Programmer
> > Applications Directorate | La direction générale des applications
> > Chief Information Officer Branch | Direction générale du dirigeant
> > principal de l'information
> > Environment Canada | Environnement Canada
> > shahzad.qureshi@ec.gc.ca
> > Telephone | Téléphone 416-739-4702
> > Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada
> > Website | Site Web www.ec.gc.ca
> >
> >
>