On 25 April 2012 07:48, Jörg Schaible <Joerg.Schaible@scalaris.com> wrote:
> Michael Heuer wrote:
>
>> Jörg Schaible wrote:
>>> Michael Heuer wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm forwarding this message originally sent to users@maven that
>>>> received no response. Perhaps dev@commons is more appropriate.
>>>
>>> why do you think, that extending from Apache Commons parent is a good
>>> thing? This parent is crafted so that it fits exactly our (Apache
>>> Commons) needs. It is considered internal and is not designed to work for
>>> all cases (especially outside its environment).
>>>
>>> Said that, if you provide patches for this POM that have no side-effects
>>> for all our components, we might consider to apply them, but don't expect
>>> that someone is maintaining/developing this parent POM like any other
>>> Commons component.
>>>
>>> IMHO, you're better off if you copy the interesting parts into a shared
>>> parent of your own.
>>
>> Thank you for the response, Jörg.
>>
>> That is what I have done, copy the interesting bits from the commons
>> and Apache parents into our internal parent. We're not extending from
>> either.
>>
>> I'm not seeing how the commons parent with its release profiles can
>> work for pom packaging projects (such as the parent project or
>> multimodule projects). When commons-parent is released, are none of
>> the release profiles enabled (rc, release, apache-release)?
>
> - rc: the one we use
That was the one we used for creating RCs prior to Nexus.
> - release: automatically activated by M2 (IIRC)
This is the one I normally use.
I think rc and release are fairly similar.
However, I'm not sure either can be used for releasing the parent POM.
> - apache-release: outdated?
This is the one in the ASF pom; IIRC it clashes with our requirements.
>> Are any
>> of the commons projects currently multimodule builds?
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CreatingReleases
>
> vfs is a multi-project
>
> - Jörg
>
>
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