no need to deal with release candidates anymore

Author: Vladimir Kotal

distribution/pom.xml

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 
   <name>Distribution</name>
 
+  <properties>
+    <project.python.package.version>${project.version}</project.python.package.version>
+  </properties>
+
   <!--
        NOTE: These dependency declarations are required to sort this project
        to the end of the line in the multimodule build and to get the jar files.
@@ -64,31 +68,6 @@
               </execution>
             </executions>
           </plugin>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-            <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.8</version>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>generate-python-package-version</id>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>regex-property</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <phase>package</phase>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!--
-                      Use property ${project.version} but delete the "-" (dash) from it
-                      and place it into the property ${project.python.package.version}
-                  -->
-                  <name>project.python.package.version</name>
-                  <regex>-rc</regex>
-                  <value>${project.version}</value>
-                  <replacement>rc</replacement>
-                  <failIfNoMatch>false</failIfNoMatch>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
           <plugin>
             <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
             <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>