[jira] Created: (MCOMPONENTS-10) Transparent plugin downloading

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        Key: MCOMPONENTS-10
    Summary: Transparent plugin downloading
       Type: Task

     Status: Open
   Priority: Major

 Original Estimate: Unknown
 Time Spent: Unknown
  Remaining: Unknown

    Project: maven-components
 Components: 
             maven-core

   Assignee: Jason van Zyl
   Reporter: Jason van Zyl

    Created: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 6:22 PM
    Updated: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 6:22 PM

Description:
Before we start advocating people specify plugins as dependencies in their POMs I would like to discuss a simple approach that will scale to any number of plugins.
                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Ultimately, I believe the goal is to ease the burden for the user. To that end I think plugins being downloaded transparently when required is the ideal to strive for. Plugins have to be located outside the core and I believe it is entirely possible to make all plugins external to the core.

By having a simple convention where the goal is prefixed by the name
of the plugin that it belongs to. So something simple like:

antlr:generate

Would simply look for the antlr plugin. So we could also simplify the naming of the plugins as jar as packaging goes too and stop assuming maven-foo-plugin.

To keep people from complaining about having to type foo:bar we can create a simple alias mechanism so people can make short cuts for themselves if they wish. But most of the time someone would check a build out and run the default goal, if anything special is required it should be automatically downloaded.

This way the maven core can ship with the basic six plugins to build and test projects and everything above that gets downloaded, but transparently as not to burden the user.



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