[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Build System] - Re: Shared Parent POM for dependencyManagement

[ALRubinger]

"scott.stark at jboss.org" wrote : org.jboss:jboss-parent is too general for that.

Yes, this is what I'm getting at.

"scott.stark at jboss.org" wrote : We still need to get a handle on whether there is an acceptable version range policy (only minor version, custom jboss policy, etc.). 

Though related, and will affect the values of a shared parent, I don't think this is a requirement to move forward in centralizing the dependencies.

"scott.stark at jboss.org" wrote : I would also suggest that snapshot version cannot be introduced into the common parent. It has to be done in the project.
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What is the reasoning behind this?  If snapshots are done only at the project level, then:

1) AS increments to snapshot of project A
2) EJB3 remains on release 1 of project A
3) AS requires release 2 of project A, updates shared parent 
4) EJB3 implicitly gets release 2 now, and has version conflict because it hasn't been seeing snapshot changes all along.  Possible compile and runtime problems.

S,
ALR

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