[jira] Created: (MRELEASE-548) release:prepare can't resolve snapshot dependencies in batch mode

["James Blewitt (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

release:prepare can't resolve snapshot dependencies in batch mode
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                 Key: MRELEASE-548
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-548
             Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: perform, prepare
    Affects Versions: 2.0
            Reporter: James Blewitt


When performing a release:prepare in interactive mode, various questions are asked at the command line, e.g. what the next development version should be and so on.
When performing a release:prepare in batch mode (using --batch-mode) these questions are not asked and default responses are used instead.
The problem with this is that for the question regarding the resolution of snapshot dependencies the default value is "no".

[INFO] Checking dependencies and plugins for snapshots ...
> There are still some remaining snapshot dependencies.: Do you want to resolve them now? (yes/no) no: :

release:perform in batch mode therefore doesn't ever resolve snapshot dependencies.  This prevents batch mode from being useful to projects using snapshots.

I would like to request one of the following solutions:

- Snapshots ARE resolved by default in batch mode.

- There should be some way to explicitly state (using a command line parameter) whether or not snapshots are resolved in batch mode.

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