[jboss-dev] pom.xml housekeeping

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>> My obligatory pastime those days is to reduce the entropy of the jboss 
>> universe by messing up with people's poms.
>>
>> I just spotted that the various ejb3 subprojects used different 
>> snapshots of their own ejb3-parent pom! Some used 0.13-1-SNAPSHOT, 
>> others 0.13-3-SNAPSHOT, so I moved them to the latest.
>>
>> Sure maven sucks, but can you also do your own housekeeping, please?
>>
>> /D
> 
> Which is wrong, because they should point to the latest parent with 
> which they're compatible. Now you'll probably get some nice incompatible 
> snapshots all over the place.

The parent is supposed to point to a set of component versions that must be shared by the 
subcomponents.

What's the point of using multiple versions of the same parent among peer subcomponents? The 
subcomponents will receive different version dependencies, which is a recipe for disaster.