Hi Bogdan, On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Bogdan Flueras wrote:

Currently all xwiki-platform submodules have in their pom.xml definition the following:

<parent> <groupId>org.xwiki.platform</groupId> <artifactId>xwiki-platform-...</artifactId> <version>3.5-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent>

The problem I see is that the parent version is a hardcoded in every submodule, thus making some some tasks very very difficult.

I haven't encountered such issues. Could you be more specific?

This is because Maven cannot read a placeholder value placed inside <version> tag. There seems to be some work on behalf of Maven guys for this issue: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624 but ...

My proposal is to either: 1) remove the <version> tag in the parent definition from every child module and let inheritance do it's job

That would generate invalid POMs that cannot be built unless you also checkout parents in the "correct" directory structure. I would call this an anti pattern.

2) use the <relativePath> *if the child can have access to it's parent pom by relative path*

Note that there's the maven versions plugin to help manipulate versions: http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/ Thanks -Vincent

I haven't tested yet but if you remove it, will the sub module know from which parent (which could have many versions) to inherit the <version> property?

WDYT?

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