[Building Sakai] Maven Version Numbers

[Steve Swinsburg]

One solution is to provide binary releases of your app. It's possible you could get away with only one version that is compatible with 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 (assuming Kernel API's you use).
I maintain a compatibility matrix for the releases of Profile2:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROFILE/Profile2+-+Version+Compatibility

You'll see there is actually a version that works in all flavours of Sakai, but recent releases require newer versions of Sakai (because of using new Kernel API's).

So if you provide the pom and assembly to allow an 'indie release', you could solve this, since Maven hasn't fixed the issue you describe.

cheers,
Steve

On 17/02/2011, at 3:37 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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