Yes, LATEST and RELEASE are deprecated or possible not even supported in Maven 3. Those key words are bad and should be removed as soon as possible.
/Anders On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:46 AM, KARR, DAVID <dk0...@att.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: m2e-users-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:m2e-users- >> boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Igor Fedorenko >> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 4:44 PM >> To: m2e-users@eclipse.org >> Subject: Re: [m2e-users] How to correctly get a checked-out project to >> be a Maven Java project >> >> I do not believe Maven supports LATEST parent version. Does the project >> actually build on command line? > > I have a feeling it must have been supported in Maven 2.x, because this code > is being built every day with Maven 2.x. My experiments are with Maven 3. > >> On 12-09-10 7:34 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: m2e-users-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:m2e-users- >> >> boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Igor Fedorenko >> >> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 3:30 PM >> >> To: m2e-users@eclipse.org >> >> Subject: Re: [m2e-users] How to correctly get a checked-out project >> to >> >> be a Maven Java project >> >> >> >> >> >> On 12-09-10 6:03 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >> >>>> From: m2e-users-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:m2e-users- >> >>>> boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Igor Fedorenko >> >>>> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 2:31 PM >> >>>> To: m2e-users@eclipse.org >> >>>> Subject: Re: [m2e-users] How to correctly get a checked-out >> project >> >> to >> >>>> be a Maven Java project >> >>>> >> >>>> Does everything work as expected if you checkout the project using >> >>>> command line svn client and then import it as existing maven >> project >> >> in >> >>>> workspace? >> >>> >> >>> That provided one trivial improvement and added one big defect and >> a >> >> smaller niggle. >> >>> >> >>> It automatically created the same .project file that was created >> when >> >> I made the first project a Maven project. >> >>> >> >>> However, even though I checked out the project from SVN, the >> imported >> >> project lost any knowledge of a mapping to SVN. >> >>> >> >>> Also, importing the project that way didn't let me give the project >> a >> >> different name from its pom artifact name, which I often need. >> >>> >> >>> Otherwise, it still left the project without knowledge of its java >> >> sources or dependencies. >> >>> >> >> >> >> This proved that the problem is not specific to import from svn but >> >> some >> >> other more generic issue either with the project or with m2e >> >> installation. I will need a small standalone example I can use to >> >> reproduce the problem locally to say anything more specific. >> > >> > I have an additional clue. One of the flaws in this project I'm >> importing is that it specifies a parent version of LATEST, which is >> invalid (I didn't think this was valid at all, so that confuses me a >> bit). It appears that when I try to update the project when this flaw >> is still in place, it appears to block registering the source trees. >> If I first fix the version reference (to "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT") before doing >> the update, it correctly registers the source trees. >> > >> > It's not clear to me whether it's a flaw that I need to update the >> project at all, but that's at least nicer than manually hacking the >> .classpath file. >> > >> >>>> On 12-09-10 5:09 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >> >>>>> I'm trying to check out a project from our SVN repo that is a >> >>>> subfolder of a multi-module project. A .project file wasn't >> stored >> >> in >> >>>> SVN, so when I checked it out, it created a new .project file that >> >> is >> >>>> almost empty. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I need to figure out what correct steps I need to follow to get >> >>>> Eclipse to know it's a Maven project with Java source. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I first tried the obvious, doing "Convert to Maven project". >> That >> >>>> changes the .project file to use the Maven2 builder and nature. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> It still doesn't know I have Java source files, however. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I then tried making it a "faceted" project, which allowed me to >> add >> >>>> the Java facet, which added the reference to the existing >> >> src/main/java >> >>>> and src/test/java trees. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> At this point, I still had numerous high-level compilation >> errors. >> >>>> Although it was now convinced it was a java project, it now >> >> apparently >> >>>> didn't know of its maven dependencies. It didn't even seem like I >> >>>> could edit the Build Path to add "Maven Dependencies". I couldn't >> >>>> figure out what "normal" step would work here. I finally just >> >> opened >> >>>> up the .classpath file and manually added the incantation that I >> >> copied >> >>>> from an existing Maven project to define the >> >>>> "org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER" entry. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> That made all the redness go away. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Is it supposed to be this hard? >> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>> m2e-users mailing list >> >>>>> m2e-users@eclipse.org >> >>>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users >> >>>>> >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> m2e-users mailing list >> >>>> m2e-users@eclipse.org >> >>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> m2e-users mailing list >> >>> m2e-users@eclipse.org >> >>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users >> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> m2e-users mailing list >> >> m2e-users@eclipse.org >> >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users >> > _______________________________________________ >> > m2e-users mailing list >> > m2e-users@eclipse.org >> > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> m2e-users mailing list >> m2e-users@eclipse.org >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users > _______________________________________________ > m2e-users mailing list > m2e-users@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users _______________________________________________ m2e-users mailing list m2e-users@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users