On 14/11/2009, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm sure glad there is help; there are a few project that are just going > > / > > > went through that process (commons-exec for instance) . Is there anyone > > > involved willing to share their successful publishing process ? > > > > We definitely need to do that and it is on my todo list to document > > the "manual" process that I follow. Basically, we have two ways to > > do releases now - using the maven release plugin (more or less > > documented on the Wiki) and "manually" doing the tagging and file > > movement via the command line. Personally, I prefer the command line > > approach. > > > > I have used the M2 approach for compress. It worked, but I sometime felt > that the process had control bout me and not otherwise. I also run into > several problems, from which most were based on my own enviroment. However, > it was no fun at all. Currently I try to build up the release plugin for > Log4php project, but this is pretty hard too. At the moment, I am tending to > a proper command line plan. There are too much problems I don't understand > with M2. > > @Henri: I don't know what why the error here happened, but I know that you > need a clean checkout to make release plugin work proberly. Its not working > if you have some kind of files from your IDE in your project.
Seems to me one should _always_ work from a clean check-out, regardless of the build process. Otherwise the process may not be repeatable by others, and it's far too easy to accidentally include spurious files. > Cheers > > Christian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
