[jbossdeveloper] <repository /> on quickstarts pom.xml

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 26 Aug 2014, at 12:07, Julian Coleman wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>> 	Right.  Note, also, that the vman tool will strip out the 
>>> <repositories>
>>> 	from the POM files that it processes.  This means that all POM 
>>> files for
>>> 	the IP builds (FSW/DV/BPMS) will not contain repositories.  So, 
>>> adding
>>> 	this information to settings.xml seems the only sensible option.
>>
>> Not all platforms use vman afaik.
>
> True.  We won't use vman for B*MS/DV/FSW 6.1.x.  However, our new 
> tooling
> will remove the <repositories> section from the POM files that we 
> process.
> We do this because it is a requirement from Project Wolf.  If we want 
> to
> add this to the quickstarts' POM's, then I think that we'll need to 
> either:
>
> co-ordinate with the Wolf team, and
> update the tooling to handle an exception for quickstarts (or use some
> other process to align the quickstarts to the correct BOM)

+1

>
> or:
>
> find a way of making developers use a settings.xml file

we tried doing that but since it requires they read the readme or look 
at the quickfixes warnings
eclipse gives you before trying it have not had the expected effect :)

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