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-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <groupId>com.sun.winsw</groupId>
-  <artifactId>winsw</artifactId>
-  <packaging>pom</packaging>
-  <version>2.2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  <name>Windows Service Wrapper (WinSW)</name>
-  <url>https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw/</url>
-   
-  <properties>
-    <winsw.version>2.2.0</winsw.version>
-  </properties>
-  
-  <licenses>
-    <license>
-      <name>The MIT license</name>
-      <url>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php</url>
-      <distribution>repo</distribution>
-    </license>
-  </licenses>  
-  
-  <developers>
-    <developer>
-      <id>oleg_nenashev</id>
-      <name>Oleg Nenashev</name>
-      <roles>
-        <role>Maintainer</role>
-      </roles>
-      <url>https://github.com/oleg-nenashev/</url>
-    </developer>
-  </developers>
-  
-  <distributionManagement>
-    <repository>
-      <id>maven.jenkins-ci.org</id>
-      <url>https://repo.jenkins-ci.org/releases/</url>
-    </repository>
-  </distributionManagement>
-  
-  <ciManagement>
-    <system>AppVeyor</system>
-    <url>https://ci.appveyor.com/project/oleg-nenashev/winsw</url>
-  </ciManagement>
-
-  <scm>
-    <connection>scm:git:ssh://github.com/kohsuke/winsw.git</connection>
-    <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/kohsuke/winsw.git</developerConnection>
-    <url>https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw</url>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
-  </scm>
-  
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.5.3</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <releaseProfiles>release-verify-winsw-version</releaseProfiles>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.jvnet.maven-antrun-extended-plugin</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-antrun-extended-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.43</version>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <phase>package</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>run</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <tasks>
-                <mkdir dir="${project.build.directory}/bin/" />
-                <get src="https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw/releases/download/winsw-v${winsw.version}/WinSW.NET2.exe" dest="${project.build.directory}/bin/winsw.exe" />
-                <attachArtifact file="${project.build.directory}/bin/winsw.exe" type="exe" classifier="bin" />
-                <get src="https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw/releases/download/winsw-v${winsw.version}/WinSW.NET4.exe" dest="${project.build.directory}/bin/winsw4.exe" />
-                <attachArtifact file="${project.build.directory}/bin/winsw4.exe" type="exe" classifier="net4" />
-              </tasks>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-  
-  <!-- Ensures that the version of the released WinSW package equals to WinSW-->
-  <profiles>
-    <profile>
-      <id>release-verify-winsw-version</id>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.jvnet.maven-antrun-extended-plugin</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-antrun-extended-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.43</version>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <phase>package</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>run</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <tasks>
-                    <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties" classpathref="maven.plugin.classpath" />
-                    <if>
-                      <not>
-                        <equals arg1="${project.version}" arg2="${winsw.version}" />
-                      </not>
-                      <then>
-                        <fail message="Project version ${project.version} is different from the WinSW version ${winsw.version}." />
-                      </then>
-                    </if>
-                  </tasks>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-            <dependencies>
-              <dependency>
-                <groupId>ant-contrib</groupId>
-                <artifactId>ant-contrib</artifactId>
-                <version>20020829</version>
-              </dependency>
-            </dependencies>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>               
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-  </profiles>
-</project>