As far as I understand it, this works fine so long as you are only connecting to non-snapshot repos.
As Rodrigo mentioned, he has snapshot repos configured in his pom, and as such the RELEASE tag will not work as desired. Wayne On 7/30/07, Stuart McCulloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/07/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To answer your original question, it is not currently possible to tell > > Maven to use the latest non-snapshot of a dependency. Something along > > these lines has been under discussion on the Dev list in the last > > month, though. > > that's weird, we've been happily using RELEASE to track the latest > version of our helper plugins for a while and it appears to pick the > right version each time (luck? chance?) > > > > > Your best bet is to simply specify the exact version you want, or > > remove the snapshot repos from your pom. > > > > Wayne > > > > On 7/30/07, Rodrigo Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Stuart ! > > > > > > Thx for your response... > > > > > > I've tried to use your suggestion but it does not work for every > > > artifacts. For example: > > > when I use: > > > > > > <plugin> > > > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > > > <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId> > > > <version>RELEASE</version> > > > <configuration> > > > ... > > > </configuration> > > > </plugin> > > > > > > Maven tries to download version 2.0-beta-5-SNAPSHOT > > > "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:pom:2.0-beta-5-20070426.100207-13" > > > > > > I don't know if it's relevant but I'm using a Maven 2 enterprise > > > repository (artifactory). > > > > > > Regards, > > > Rodrigo. > > > > > > > > > Stuart McCulloch wrote: > > > > On 30/07/07, Rodrigo Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi... > > > >> > > > >> In my poms I have some plugins configured without the version in order > > > >> to use the latest one, but in my settings.xml file I need to have some > > > >> snapshot-repositories. > > > >> So in the builds maven will use the latest version available witch is a > > > >> snapshot version, and that is not my intension. > > > >> Is there any way to specify maven to use the latest non-snapshot > > > >> version > > > >> of a dependency? > > > >> > > > > > > > > have you tried using a meta-version, such as: > > > > > > > > <version>RELEASE</version> > > > > > > > > that shouldn't match against any snapshots. > > > > > > > > > > > >> Thx in advance... > > > >> Rodrigo. > > > >> > > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, Stuart > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
