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On 04/03/2008, at 6:22 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote:

>
>> As I understand your proposal, the don't-append-marker would vanish
> after
>> the first inheritance step, re-enabling the default behavior for all
>> descendant POMs?
>
> You're right, it probably won't work that way. I was thinking the
> behavior info would be available throughout the inheritance process,  
> but
> removed after...but then you couldn't inherit from a deployed pom.

It's ugly, but there is a workaround for this now in respecifying the  
URLs in the child POMs. It's a pain but it's not the end of the world  
and I'd say better than adding even more voodoo.

I'd also like to take the time to apologise for adding this behaviour,  
it seemed like a good idea at the time...

> I'm not convinced adding a flag to the pom will help because we have  
> so
> many different urls (site, scm, distro) and I don't think a global
> switch for all of them is what people want.


In the attributes branch we have different model readers for different  
versions and can presumably have different semantics as people update  
through the versions. I would say that's the best way to go - keep  
behaving the same way as now for 4.0.0 POMs, and come up with a better  
solution for people that choose to use 4.1.0 POMs (once they are in  
place).

My 2c.

Cheers,
Brett

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