[MSHARED-38] Archiver should be adding "Created-By: Apache Maven _2.0.4_" to the manifest

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: maven-archiver-2.5
• Component/s: maven-archiver
• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: Matthew Beermann
• Created: 26/Oct/06 14:07
• Updated: 06/Apr/15 01:49
• Resolved: 20/Jan/12 10:20

Description

The maven-archiver currently adds the string "Created-By: Apache Maven" to the manifest of all projects. This is good, but it needs to be more specific - e.g. Apache Maven 2.0.4. This would have two major benefits:
1) It would bring it in line with the "Build-Jdk" field, which has values like "1.5.0_09"
2) It would help in having truly repeatable builds - potentially, you need to know which version of Maven was used to build an artifact

I'd write the patch myself if I could figure out how to get at the information... it's in a @component called "runtimeInformation", but how do you access components from a low-level library like maven-archiver?

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: MASSEMBLY-634 Add Maven version used to Created-By entry in manifest
• is depended upon by: MEAR-145 Add Maven version used to Created-By entry in manifest
• is depended upon by: MEJB-56 Add Maven version used to Created-By entry in manifest
• is depended upon by: MJAR-148 Add Maven version used to Created-By entry in manifest
• is depended upon by: MWAR-273 Add Maven version used to Created-By entry in manifest
• is depended upon by: MSHARED-273 Update documentation for the "Created-By" manifest entry
• relates to: MNG-4112 Set property containing the currently executing maven version.