Maven poms for plugins
Hi,
While working on the MKS plugin i've come to use the maven release plugin and found it nice and usefull : it handles nicely the needed operations to make a release (updating pom and tagging the scm, mainly).
But to make it even better for us, I would like to know if it is possible to propagate the pom version in the plugin.xml.
Any idea ?
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Thibaut wrote:
This sounds like the job for a Maven plugin. It would be that hard to
create a Maven plugin that would search for the string
"${project.version}" in the plugin.xml file and replace it with the
value of project/version in pom.xml. Get in touch with me if you need
help with this.
You do not need to create a plugin for that. Just use the resource filtering that is present in Maven. Use something like:
yes, i discovered this a few days ago and it seems the right solution.
THanks for your tip !