how to release a project which depends on a 3rd party SNAPSHOT project in maven

maven-2 versioning release snapshot maven-release-plugin
Christian picture Christian · Oct 29, 2008 · Viewed 26.2k times · Source

i would like to release a snapshot project 'foo-1.0-SNAPSHOT' using the maven release plugin. The project depends on a 3rd party module 'bar-1.0-SNAPSHOT' which is not released yet. I use the option 'allowTimestampedSnapshots' in my project's pom.xml to allow timestamped snapshots but i assume that the 3rd party module (bar) is not timestamped unless i build it myself as maven still complains about unresolved SNAPSHOT dependencies.

Is there a way to release the project foo regardless of dependent SNAPSHOT projects and if not how could i add a timestamp to the 3rd party project?

Answer

Stevo Slavić picture Stevo Slavić · Oct 18, 2010

Problem is with the allowTimestampedSnapshots parameter name, it's in the documentation but the plugin's source uses a different parameter name in expression - ignoreSnapshots.

So just use -DignoreSnapshots=true and the prepare goal of the release plugin will ignore snapshot dependencies.

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