Re: [M2] How to use "relativePath" of in a pom?

[Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com>]

Got it one Kenney.

On 9/29/05, Kenney Westerhof <ke...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 fabrice.belingard@mpsa.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've seen that there's a "relativePath" attribute for the "parent" element
> > of the pom. According to the documentation, this is "the relative path of
> > the parent-pom within the project hierarchy". If this property exists, I
> > guess this allows to discover the parent pom without specifying the
> > version, the artifactId and the groupId of the parent, which would be
> > _very_ handy. However, I get the following error when launching maven:
> > "Missing groupId element from parent element".
> >
> > So my question is: is this property working? I guess no:
> > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1012 (which hasn't been assigned yet)
> > But maybe this doesn't work this way. So my second question is: how does
> > this property work?
>
> I'm not entirely up-to-speed on this new feature, but AFAIK the
> artifactId and groupId are mandatory in a <parent> element (version too
> IIRC).
> POMs should be able to be used stand-alone. A client that uses your pom
> wouldn't know where to look for that parent pom, since the directory
> structure on ibiblio is not quite the same as the project tree structure.
>
> Before this attribute was in, m2 always checked ../pom.xml to see if it
> matched the declared parent. If so, it used that (and the data in
> target/*) instead of going to your local/remote repositories for the pom.
> I guess this attribute is just an extension to that, so you can specify
> other locations for your parent project than ../.
>
> Other m2 devs - jump in if this is incorrect!
>
> -- Kenney
>
> > Thanks in advance for your answers!
> >
> > Best Regards / Cordialement,
> > Fabrice BELLINGARD
> > DINQ/DSIN/INSI/EATE/IDVS/AIDV
> > (+33) (01 61) 45 15 91  -  fabrice.belingard@mpsa.com
> >
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