Re: Best way to create daily SNAPSHOT updates in autoupdate center?

It is a maven project. I found a roundabout workaround for now but am
hopeful there is a less invasive way to go about it. For example the
proposal described here is exactly what I'm looking for:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/MavenNBM4#Versioning


I updated my manifest.mf files to include the following line:

    OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version:
${ugs.modules.specification.version}


Used the "maven-resources-plugin" resources plugin I copy that file to the
target directory with " <filtering>true</filtering>" to fill make the
substitution.

Making sure the "nbm-maven-plugin" is configured to look there with
"<sourceManifestFile>${project.build.directory}/manifest.mf</sourceManifestFile>"


Now things get a little hacky, I need to parse 1.2.3 out of 1.2.3-SNAPSHOT.
I used the "build-helper-maven-plugin" gives you maven variables like
"${parsedVersion.majorVersion}" and allowed me to define my version like:

      <maven.build.timestamp.format>yyyy.MM.dd.HH.mm
</maven.build.timestamp.format>

      <ugs.modules.specification.version>
${parsedVersion.majorVersion}.${parsedVersion.minorVersion}.${parsedVersion.incrementalVersion}.${maven.build.timestamp}</ugs.modules.specification.version>


Now everytime I rebuild my snapshot there will be a unique version.
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