Fwd: enforcing plugin writing guidelines at build time

[Jerome Lacoste <je...@gmail.com>]

[Sorry for cross posting, but this was intended to the developper list.]

On 3/15/07, Jerome Lacoste <je...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> further care must be taken when writing plugins considering that maven can
> be embedded. Maven sort of acts as a container for code. And maven itself
> can be embedded.



This isn't limited to embedding. As I said Kaare yesterday, maven plugin
developers all make the same mistake. They don't make the plugin
multi-module ready, they forget to use the proxy configuration, etc...

I believe these recurring problems can be detected programatically and
prevented. AOP can help.

So it's just an idea. Sorry I don't have time to code it now. Maybe someone
will take on it.

Maybe a candidate for http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2007 ??

Jerome