[jira] Commented: (MNG-5167) relative local repository settings

["Jason Pyeron (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

    [ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5167?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=279221#comment-279221 ] 

Jason Pyeron commented on MNG-5167:
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- What problem you're trying to solve

Presently the local repository can only be specified as an absolute path or relative to the current working directory (CWD). In a CMMI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model_Integration) Level 3 and greater environment it is often a requirement to have all project dependencies at all times (or at a minimum at release milestones) in the SCM system. 

Each developer workstation may not be configured identically and it would be burdensome to expect a configuration change for a build tool.

By allowing project relative repository paths, the configuration can be predicted and controlled.

- Why you think it's important

As a measure of importance, this patch is being used in production in 3 different companies in a production capacity presently. This patch allows a switch to maven from a manual dependency management approach without breaking policies.

- Examples of how it would be used

Project structure:

./
./bin
./lib/mvn
./src
./var/opt/apache-maven-3.0.4-SNAPSHOT/
./var/opt/apache-maven-3.0.4-SNAPSHOT/conf/settings.xml: <settings><localRepositoryRelativeTo>M2_HOME</localRepositoryRelativeTo><localRepository>../../../lib/mvn</localRepository></settings>


> relative local repository settings
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-5167
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5167
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Settings
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.3, 3.0.4
>            Reporter: Jason Pyeron
>         Attachments: MNG-5167.patch
>
>
> see patch

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