RE: Depending on POM using inheritance breaks build

[cowwoc <co...@bbs.darktech.org>]

Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cowwoc [mailto:cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org]
>>
>>Wayne Fay wrote:
>>>
>>>> What do you recommend I do to work around this problem?
>>>
>>> Don't use the ${swt.classifier} for now...
>>>
>>> You may notice it was reported 5 years ago so if you actually want it
>>> fixed, you'll probably need to help on MNG-1388.
>>>
>>
>>How do you deal with artifacts that need a different native library
>>depending on the build platform without the use of ${swt.classifier}?
> 
> This feels to me like the old problem that there is no distinction between
> the pom file used to control the build, and the pom file that describes
> the artifact.  
> In a general sense, the properties that exist at the time that an artifact
> gets created (in this case swt.classifier, which was set by a profile)
> aren't remembered in the deployed artifact.
> 
> The workaround I've seen suggested for this is to throw another layer of
> indirection in there and have a separate pom for each possible value of
> your variable.  
> In your case, I think you'd split project B into a B-windows-x86/pom.xml,
> B-whateverelse/pom.xml, etc... modules that each refer to the
> swt.classifier with a fixed value.  
> Then you'd need to set up an overall pom.xml that lists different modules
> based on the profile, 
> and you'll probably want some kind of common pom that all of the
> sub-modules depend on to pull in all the other normal dependencies.
> Obviously, this doesn't work well if you have more than just one variable
> you're dealing with, 
> and it seems (to me anyway) to be an unnecessary complex and confusing way
> to set things up, 
> but supposedly that's the "maven way".
> 
> eric
> 

Gentlemen,

Does any of you care to comment on this problem? Is this convoluted approach
really the best available way of solving the problem?

Gili
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