viewable info on individual plugins and maven.xml goals

[__matthewHawthorne <ma...@apache.org>]

Although I would prefer not to, I frequently need to create a maven.xml 
to do some special things.

One great thing from Ant was the '-projecthelp' option that would output 
the available targets and documentation.  I find that 'maven -g' is 
overwhelming, since I usually only need to view one plugin at a time.  I 
usually create a 'help' goal that documents all of my special goals and 
properties.


It would be nice if:

1) 'maven -g <plugin>' would show all of the goals from the specified plugin

2) maven -go (goal override, or something similar) could show all goals 
from maven.xml, like Ant's projecthelp.


Questions:

1) Have I missed something -- does this functionality already exist 
somehwere?

2) Do others agree that these are good ideas?


Thanks for any input!


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Re: viewable info on individual plugins and maven.xml goals

[Chad Brandon <ch...@yahoo.com>]

I agree...I think that would be really helpful if
something like that existed.


--- __matthewHawthorne <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> Although I would prefer not to, I frequently need to
> create a maven.xml 
> to do some special things.
> 
> One great thing from Ant was the '-projecthelp'
> option that would output 
> the available targets and documentation.  I find
> that 'maven -g' is 
> overwhelming, since I usually only need to view one
> plugin at a time.  I 
> usually create a 'help' goal that documents all of
> my special goals and 
> properties.
> 
> 
> It would be nice if:
> 
> 1) 'maven -g <plugin>' would show all of the goals
> from the specified plugin
> 
> 2) maven -go (goal override, or something similar)
> could show all goals 
> from maven.xml, like Ant's projecthelp.
> 
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) Have I missed something -- does this
> functionality already exist 
> somehwere?
> 
> 2) Do others agree that these are good ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any input!
> 
> 
>
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