[transform-swf-updates] Update on release process for Transform Version 3.0

[News on r. b. a. p. f. T. S. f. J. <tra...@li...>]

Rather than deal with releases at regular intervals a more 
Maven-oriented approach will be taken from now on. This means that bug 
fixes and significant changes will be pushed out immediately - though 
planned changes will still be reported in advance, particularly when the 
changes affect the API and so might break existing code.


If you are using Maven:

All new snapshot releases will be deployed to the Sonatype public 
repository: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/

Add the following entry to your POM

    <dependencies>
        ....
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.flagstone</groupId>
            <artifactId>transform</artifactId>
            <version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

Add the Sonatype public repository to your settings.xml:

<profiles>
    ...
    <profile>
        <repositories>
            <repository>
                <id>FlagstoneSnapshots</id>
                <name>Flagstone Software Snapshots</name>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                    <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
                    <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
                </releases>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                    <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
                    <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
                </snapshots>
                <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public</url>
                <layout>default</layout>
            </repository>
        </repositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>


If you are not using Maven, you can still download the latest snapshot 
from the Flagstone web site:

http://www.flagstonesoftware.com/downloads/index.html

The snapshot files are not timestamped, e.g. 
transform-3.0-SNAPSHOT-dist.tar.gz rather than 
transform-3.0-20100703.133854-2-dist.tar.gz. This should make it simple 
to drop in new releases though at the risk of getting snapshots mixed up 
if there is a breaking change.

Regards,

Stuart
--
Flagstone Software Ltd.