[ANN] Maven Distribution Plugin 1.7 for Maven 1.x released

[Lukas Theussl <lt...@apache.org>]

We are pleased to announce the Maven Distribution Plugin 1.7 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/dist/


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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o New property maven.dist.include.dirs to include additional directories. 
  Fixes MPDIST-14. 
o New property maven.dist.formats to allow creation of only zip or tar.gz 
  archives. Fixes MPDIST-17. 
o Allow distribution of artifact types other than jar. New property 
  maven.dist.bin.artifact.type, deprecated property maven.dist.bin.artifact. 
  Fixes MPDIST-26. 
o New property maven.dist.bin.include.site to optionally include the site 
  docs in the binary distribution. Fixes MPDIST-19. 
o Allow to configure to which files should use CRLF/LF line endings in 
  archives. Fixes MPDIST-27 and MPDIST-28. 
o Added multiproject analogs mirroring single project goals. Also added the 
  abiltiy to generate combined javadocs for multiproject distribution. 
  However multiproject consolidation might be best put into the site plugin. 
  These fixes are associated with the following JIRA enhancement issue. 
o Added maven.dist.bin.artifact property. Fixes MPDIST-13. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Parent project is not included in source distribution. Fixes MPDIST-11. 
o build-src goal does not use pom.build.sourceDirectory. Fixes MPDIST-12. 
o dist:prepare-src-filesystem doesn't recognize maven.ant.generatebuild.file. 
  Fixes MPDIST-24. 

  Changes:

o Fix compatibility with the version of ant plugin newer or equal to 1.10. 
o New maven.dist.src.include property. Fixes MPDIST-15. Thanks to Fabrizio 
  Giustina. 
o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them 
  between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : commons-logging 
  v1.0.3 to v1.0.4, maven v1.0 to v1.0.2, maven-model v3.0.0 to v3.0.1 Fixes 
  MAVEN-1712. 
o It requires at least maven-artifact-plugin v1.7. Notethat this plugin is 
  not compatible with Maven 1.0.2! 
o Make compatible with Maven 1.1 
o Don't generate ant build file, call maven-ant-plugin before or set a 
  preGoal 
o Add NOTICE file to distribution 

  Removed features:

o Removed unused properties: maven.dist.tar.executable and 
  maven.dist.gunzip.executable. Fixes MPDIST-18.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-dist-plugin
  -Dversion=1.7

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-dist-plugin-1.7.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Distribution Plugin development team

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