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List:       xml-cocoon-dev
Subject:    Re: Automatic releases
From:       Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke () gmx ! de>
Date:       2006-05-24 20:19:56
Message-ID: 4474BFEC.9020605 () gmx ! de
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On 24.05.2006 22:06, Reinhard Poetz wrote:
>>> Is there any possibility to provide automatic *unofficial* releases of
>>> our artifacts? I'm asking because for me (and I think for others too)
>>> it's an important requirement that only non-SNAPSHOT artifacts are used
>>> in my POMs. That's the only way to guarantee that a POM working today
>>> will still work tommorrow or in two years.
>>
>> I fully agree with your argument about producing reproducible artifacts.
>>
>> However I'm not sure what to think when you say 'unofficial release'. A
>> release is a release, whether we send a note to announce@a.o or not.
> 
> The only difference to a snapshot releases is that we publish 
> identifiable artifacts like cocoon-forms-r412334.jar instead of 
> cocoon-forms-SNAPSHOT.jar.
> Compare it with a nightly build and producing nightly builds has been 
> done for ages.

If the only difference to snapshot releases is the name of the jar, I 
don't understand what's actually so difficult. Isn't it possible to grep 
the svn revision from the "svn up" log?

Jörg
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