[jira] Commented: (MRELEASE-252) Support for multi modules project

["Stijn de Reede (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Stijn de Reede commented on MRELEASE-252:
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+1

This is also a becoming a major issue for our development team. We're developing components for an ECM application. The multimodule project defines set of components linked together to be installed in a certain environment. When we update a single component, we want to make a new release of the multimodule project to be deployed to the Test environment. However, if we update a single component (=submodule) and release the multimodule project, every other component in it is also released and has it's version number updated.

Actually, the behavior I quickly thought of would be like this:

- create an option like releaseUnchangedModules=false (defaults to true)

- when you would run "mvn release:prepare release:perform" in a multimodule project, by default the release plugin would update the version number of each module from x-SNAPSHOT to x, do a release and set the new trunk version to (x+1)-SNAPSHOT. The aggregating project's version would also updated.

- when you do  "mvn release:prepare release:perform -DreleaseUnchangedModules=false", the release plugin could compare each module with the latest version in SCM. If the module hasn't changed, the version is set back from x-SNAPSHOT to (x-1). If it has changed, it is set to x. The new trunk version would be x-SNAPSHOT (unchanged) and (x+1)-SNAPSHOT (changed), respectively. The aggregating project's version would also updated.

> Support for multi modules project
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MRELEASE-252
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-252
>             Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: perform, prepare, stage
>    Affects Versions: 2.0-beta-6
>         Environment: Maven 2.0.6
>            Reporter: Franck HUGOT
>
> I would like to prepare a release for multi-modules project.
> I would create tags for all the modules and modify poms.
> Not only the versionId in the pom but also the eventual dependencies between all the modules.
> Indeed, if a module A has a dependency to module B, the version will be updated.
> The dependency management is a hard task in multi modules project and this feature would be really appreciated.

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