[Building Sakai] Maven Version Numbers

[Anthony Whyte]

>  In spite of 
> substantial Maven documentation to the contrary, the property reference 
> isn't resolved.


What Maven documentation suggests otherwise?  Variable substitutions in parent poms, although demanded by many, has not been implemented in Maven 2x or 3x (as of yet).

See the long discussion in the yet unresolved MNG-624 as well as related MNG tickets. 

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624


Cheers,

Anth




On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Mark Norton wrote:

> I have a Sakai tool that I maintain for SoftChalk called lbgateway.  It 
> has two POMs that follow the general Sakai conventions.  My problem is 
> with the parent references.  The version number is hard coded to the 
> current version of Sakai, currently 2.7.1.  Since this version number is 
> hard coded in the POMs, it means that I have to maintain separate tagged 
> builds for 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.7.0, and 2.7.1 (not to mention 
> the upcoming 2.8.0 release).  Every time I make a minor bug fix to the 
> code, I have to update six (!) tagged releases just because the version 
> number is hard coded.
> 
> Since the parent element in the POM refers to the Sakai master POM, I 
> don't really understand why the current Sakai version can't be defined 
> there.  Instead, it is hard-wired into ALL Sakai tools.
> 
> I have tried setting a property in settings.xml along the lines of 
> "<softchalk.sakai.version>2.7.1</softchalk.sakai.version> and 
> referencing it in the POMs as ${softchalk.sakai.version}.  In spite of 
> substantial Maven documentation to the contrary, the property reference 
> isn't resolved.
> 
> So I ask you, fellow Sakaigers, is this fixable?  Is there a way to 
> centrally declare the current Sakai version so that I don't have to 
> maintain a half dozen tagged versions of a tool?  Am I crazy to want this?
> 
> - Mark Norton
> 
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