[jira] Moved: (MASSEMBLY-76) [assembly plugin] improve or clarify inheriting/reusing descriptors

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-76?page=all ]

Brett Porter moved MNG-2189 to MASSEMBLY-76:
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       Version:     (was: 2.0.2)
                    (was: 2.0.3)
     Component:     (was: Plugin Requests)
    Complexity:   (was: Intermediate)
           Key: MASSEMBLY-76  (was: MNG-2189)
       Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin  (was: Maven 2)

> [assembly plugin] improve or clarify inheriting/reusing descriptors
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: MASSEMBLY-76
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-76
>      Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
>         Type: Improvement

>     Reporter: Jacob Robertson

>
>
> I want to declare a new reusable assembly descriptor.  Then, in my parent pom I can reference that descriptor, and all children projects will be able to do assembly:assembly without specifying the descriptor.  This actually works halfway, but then the assembly plugin can't find the descriptor - because it doesn't live inside of the child project.  I was trying to play around with putting the descriptor in the parent project, but since the packaging has to be "pom" that of course wouldn't work.
> Unless I misunderstand, the way this currently works, I'd have to declare the descriptor for each and every child project.  Which would be very unfortunate, since the 3 supplied predefined descriptors don't meet my needs.
> If there is a way to do this, then the improvement request is to improve the documentation for this since I couldn't figure it out...

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