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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by Sybren Stüvel <sy...@chess.nl> on 2006/10/05 13:29:01 UTC

Re: Project-specific plugins

Hi.

>> Our current projects currently make extensive use of Maven 1.0. Since
>> Maven 2 looks very promising, we'd like to make the switch. At this
>> moment, many projects contain project-specific goals in maven.xml. We
>> could convert this code into M2 plugins, but that would separate the
>> project-specific plugin from the rest of the project.
> 
> What's so bad about that?

Joining the project would require yet another action to be done by the
programmer, namely copying the plugin from the project to his/her M2
plugin directory. Changes to the plugin would have to be copied back and
then committed.

> You may configure plugin repositories on a per-project basis.

Nice. Can that be done with paths relative to the project directory?

Greetings,
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Sybren Stüvel <sy...@chess.nl>
Software Engineer CHESS iBusiness
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