On 31/07/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

ah, ok - good to know

>
> 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.
> > > > >>
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