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Gili
Gili

Reputation: 89993

Maven: How to avoid building a module during a release?

I know how to avoid deploying a module during the release process. What is not clear is how to avoid building the module to begin with. For example, my project contains an "examples" module. This takes a very long time to build and is never deployed to Maven Central so I'd like to avoid building it altogether (but only during a deploy). Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (2)

khmarbaise
khmarbaise

Reputation: 97359

Best thing in this case is to use a profile and put the example into a separate module which can be activated by a profile. This prevents building during release but can be build during usual development etc. via activating profile.

Upvotes: 1

nwinkler
nwinkler

Reputation: 54437

If you're using the Maven Release Plugin, you will need to take care of both the prepare and the release steps, since projects are usually built in both steps.

For the prepare step, I would try the preparationGoals parameter, which by default uses clean verify, which includes a build of the project. Maybe you can try setting it to clean only to avoid the build. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/perform-mojo.html

For the perform step, take a look at the goals parameter, which by default is set to deploy. You can override this by specifying clean only. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/perform-mojo.html

I haven't tried this exact combination, so I don't know whether this will have any side-effects on the rest of the build.

Upvotes: 1

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