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From: Thomas Sundberg <tsu@kth.se>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 08:03:47 +0200
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Subject: Re: org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin:2.0:update-properties
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On 8 May 2013 22:27, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.connolly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 May 2013 20:28, Thomas Sundberg <tsu@kth.se> wrote:
>
>> On 8 May 2013 21:13, Wayne Fay <waynefay@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> It works well for artifacts in Nexus that was deployed from Maven.
>> >> Unfortunately, we have some artifacts that consist of zip files and
>> >> has been generated from an Ant build.
>> >
>> > I assume the plugin queries your MRM and looks at the versions in
>> > maven-metadata.xml. How are the zip files being deployed to your MRM?
>> > Or are they just installed locally in ~/.m2, or what?
>> >
>>
>> The files are uploaded to the Nexus server and are expected to be
>> downloaded from it as well. If the maven-metadata is updated properly
>> or not is something I need to check.
>>
>> >> My question is, does anybody know how an updated version is located by
>> >> the version plugin? It seems to me that it doesn't just look at all
>> >> versions for an artifact and then uses the largest number.
>> >
>> > I assume Stephen C. will give us an authoritative reply soon.
>>
>> I am hooping for an answer from Stephen.
>>
>
> Looks at the versions in the metadata, and then looks at all the
> dependencies that use that property and then looks for the highest common
> version that is available for all those dependencies using the sorting rule
> defined for the dependencies (behaviour is either undefined or throw an
> error if the different dependencies have different sorting rules that
> result in an effective different order... you'd need to check the code to
> be sure)
>

Thanks

/Thomas

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