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Re: Switching GFv3 to depend on explicitly versioned HK2, not SNAPSHOT?

From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:53:05 -0700

Jerome Dochez wrote:
> I agree, I am a bit unclear how you can locally test hk2 changes with
> V3. You mentioned using snapshots hk2 and then build v3 changing the
> hk2 version to snapshot ?

You'd have to run Maven with -Dhk2.version=0.5-SNAPSHOT or something to
have your local build pick up a version of your choice. Or make a
temporary modification to POM.



> otherwise I think it makes sense, I have broken the builds multiple
> times doing updates in hk2 and v3 due to build time differences in
> hudson.
>
> jerome
>
> On Apr 14, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
>>
>> I've started test-driving the maven release plugin toward the TP2
>> release, and the first step was to make this work for HK2.
>>
>> I now believe I made all the necessary changes for the release
>> plugin to work correctly. I changed HK2 to auto-complete OSGi
>> version from Maven version, tweaked the site generation a bit to
>> work around a Maven bug, and finally did some more nasty hacking to
>> work around the cyclic reference issue between the hk2-maven-plugin
>> vs hk2.
>>
>>
>> For us to run the release plugin on GFv3, one of the prerequisite is
>> for all its dependencies to be non-SNAPSHOT. So I propose we switch
>> GFv3 to depend on a released version of HK2, instead of the current
>> SNAPSHOT dependency.
>>
>> There are several implications in doing this, but most notably, when
>> we make changes in HK2 that need to be picked up by GFv3, HK2 needs
>> to be released and the new version must be given. For us to test the
>> local SNAPSHOT HK2 with GFv3, we'd have to build GFv3
>>
>> But I think going forward this is the right thing to do. This should
>> also fix the temporary build breakage problem when you make a change
>> that spans across HK2 and GFv3.
>>
>> I can set up a Hudson task so that we can automate the release
>> process.
>>
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Before I lose this note, this is the exact instruction to run a
>> successful release
>>
>> # base line
>> mvn clean install
>> # this fails citing maven-hk2-plugin is not available
>> mvn -B -P release release:prepare
>> # so we build it...
>> mvn -P release-phase1 install
>> # then retry the release
>> mvn -B -P release release:prepare
>>
>> # now I need this again, just so that POM loads
>> mvn -P release-phase1 install
>> # finally a release
>> mvn -B release:perform
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kohsuke Kawaguchi
>> Sun Microsystems kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com
>
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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