[jira] [Commented] (MNG-6131) Support pom without coordinate

["Elliotte Rusty Harold (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented on MNG-6131:
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I'm skeptical. I've written some tooling that would be quite surprised if it encountered a POM without a GAV. Plus, it seems simpler to state the rule as every pom has a GAV, instead of some POMs have GAV but these sorts of POM in these conditions can omit it but not those POMs that you use for something else. 

> Support pom without coordinate
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>
>                 Key: MNG-6131
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6131
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: FDPFC, POM
>            Reporter: Robert Scholte
>            Priority: Major
>
> In some cases the GAV is only there because Maven expects it, even though these coordinates will never be used.
> The most common case is an aggregator: it will only trigger module without being part of a multimodule project.
> Another case I'm thinking of are test-cases, where you want to show the behavior of some plugins. This project self will (or should!) never be installed or deployed.
> In general: the GAV is only required when another project will refer to it or if you want to distribute the project via a M2-repository manager.



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