[Codenarc-developer] Maven - Snapshot & migrating off of GMaven for Groovy 1.8

[Hamlet D'A. <ham...@gm...>]

I tested our codebase with Groovy 1.8. From IDEA everything worked
fine. From the command line it broke. The problem, as I understand it,
is that the GMaven version we use dictates the version of the Groovy
compiler. I can specify Groovy 1.8 in the pom.xml, but that isn't used
to compile, only as a dependency to run tests, etc. Perhaps we should
use Rene's Gradle build for building, and use Maven only for the site
target. Then we can have a 1.7 version and a 1.8 version. *However*,
this is not a big deal. You can happily have a 1.8 Groovy project and
run CodeNarc+1.7 against it. It is just that some language features
may not be recognized.

Also, I updated the version number in the pom to 0.13-SNAPSHOT. Is
there any way we could upload this to Maven central or have it
automatically published? I would like to have people use 0.13 SNAPSHOT
to report defects easily and then when we release we are more
confident of our quality (and can deliver bug fixes in SNAPSHOT
versions faster). It would be nice to get everyone on the snapshot and
that way every time we check in a new rule, they could get the rule
automatically.

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Hamlet D'Arcy
ham...@gm...