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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by Jason van Zyl <ja...@zenplex.com> on 2003/07/14 04:10:16 UTC

Re: Undocumented properties (was: Re: Keeping your test source code ...)

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 22:07, Mark R. Diggory wrote:
> Sorry, I made it sound like I was poking holes in the project in that 
> last thread, while in reality, I really appreciate Maven as a tool and 
> use it regularly.

Fear not, I have a very, very thick skin :-)

> I want to clarify that I understand that there are project.xml elements 
> that can be set ( unitTestSourceDirectory, 
> integrationUnitTestSourceDirectory, ...). And, these elements as well as 
> all the plug properties are well documented. I didn't want to make it 
> seem that there was a "lack of documentation" for Maven, there certainly 
> is alot of documentation going around.

The documentation is still lacking and that is for the most part my
doing. I do much of it in bursts when I get the time.

> My primary question is if there are undocumented properties that can be 
> set in project.properties or used in maven.xml that are not actually 
> defined by the plugins, but actually by the base architecture of Maven 
> itself? Like for instance properties used by werkz plugin or maven 
> plugin base?

Most of the base properties are in driver/default.properties. Some of
those actually belong in their respective plugins which I have done in
the refactoring I have which will be shoved into CVS soon.

> This actually flows back to an earlier discussion about documentation 
> and the werkz plugin.

I post some quicky docs to the list regarding Werkz and Ben challenged
the user to make an xdoc of it. It's in the archive if you want to
document it.

> http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg00751.html
> 
> thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
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Re: Undocumented properties

Posted by di...@multitask.com.au.
Maybe someone could integrate this into the Maven user's guide.

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dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
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Work:      http://www.multitask.com.au


Ben Walding <be...@walding.com> wrote on 15/07/2003 12:35:12 AM:

> 
> >>This actually flows back to an earlier discussion about documentation 
> >>and the werkz plugin.
> >> 
> >>
> >
> >I post some quicky docs to the list regarding Werkz and Ben challenged
> >the user to make an xdoc of it. It's in the archive if you want to
> >document it.
> >
> > 
> >
> >>http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg00751.html
> >> 
> >>
> 
> Surprisingly, they rose to the challenge!
> 
> http://wiki.codehaus.org/maven/WerkzTagDocumentation
> 
> 
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Re: Undocumented properties

Posted by Ben Walding <be...@walding.com>.
>>This actually flows back to an earlier discussion about documentation 
>>and the werkz plugin.
>>    
>>
>
>I post some quicky docs to the list regarding Werkz and Ben challenged
>the user to make an xdoc of it. It's in the archive if you want to
>document it.
>
>  
>
>>http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg00751.html
>>    
>>

Surprisingly, they rose to the challenge!

http://wiki.codehaus.org/maven/WerkzTagDocumentation



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