[LUCENE-3543] Add previous versions to maven-metadata.xml files generated by 'ant generate-maven-artifacts'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 3.4, 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: general/build
• Assignee: Steven Rowe
• Reporter: Steven Rowe
• Created: 30/Oct/11 03:25
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:00
• Resolved: 06/Apr/12 22:11

Description

The generate-maven-artifacts target generates one maven-metadata.xml file per artifact. In a repository, these files should contain a list of all previous releases along with the current release, but because Maven Ant Tasks doesn't have access to these versions, it does not include them in the files it produces.

Two possible solutions:

1. download Maven central's versions of the files prior to running generate-maven-artifacts and pre-populate the target local repository; or
2. post-process the files to include the previous versions - this would require some form of access to the previously released versions for each artifact being published