Guys, since Sebb is going to modify the parent pom, I want also have your opinion about the current values of the Specification-Version in the manifests. Currently Maven generates uses the current version of the artifact for "Specification-Version" and "Implementation-Version" i.e. "<Major>.<Minor>- SNAPSHOT" in case of a snapshot or "<Major.Minor>" for the standard release. However, in case of a bugfix release, this version is "<Major>.<Minor>.<Patch>". The ideal situation would be IMHO that we have the "Specification-Version" always using "<Major>.<Minor>" while the "Implementation-Version" should stay the exact version that Maven is using.
This can be achieved from the parent pom using the build-helper-maven plugin and a proper configuration of the "archive" configuration element of e.g. the jar plugin: ============= %< ============= ... <build> <pluginManagement> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.5</version> <extensions>true</extensions> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> <configuration> <archive> <manifest> <addDefaultSpecificationEntries>true</addDefaultSpecificationEntries> <addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries> </manifest> <manifestEntries> <Specification-Version>${project.info.majorVersion}. ${project.info.minorVersion}</Specification-Version> // other useful additional entries e.g.: <X-Compile-Source>${java.version.source}</X-Compile-Source> <X-Compile-Target>${java.version.target}</X-Compile-Target> <X-Builder>Maven ${maven.version}</X-Builder> <X-BuildTime>${maven.build.timestamp}</X-BuildTime> </manifestEntries> </archive> </configuration> </plugin> ... </pluginManagement> ... <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <id>versions</id> <phase>generate-resources</phase> <goals> <goal>maven-version</goal> <goal>parse-version</goal> </goals> <configuration> <propertyPrefix>project.info</propertyPrefix> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> ... </plugins> </build> ============= %< ============= What do you think? - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org