[jira] (MNG-5059) --also-make-phase

["Milos Kleint (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Milos Kleint commented on MNG-5059:
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in some situations, even getting the other projects linked in reactor is enough, no phase has to be executed:

eg. mvn -pl mainProject -Dexec.args="-cp %classpath Main" exec:exec 
currently puts the library project's local repository jars on cp but in some situations it would be preferable to have the target/classes folders included. That seems to be happening when you run mvn -am -pl compile phase, all compiles nicely without local repository jars.
"-amp validate" would be a nice workaround when this issue is implemented, but maybe we could get away without executing any phases? 

 
                
> --also-make-phase
> -----------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-5059
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5059
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Command Line
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.3
>            Reporter: Jesse Glick
>            Assignee: Jason van Zyl
>
> Background: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/201104.mbox/%3Cincnbn$4kl$1@dough.gmane.org%3E
> {{--also-make}} (with {{--projects}}) is useful, but suffers from the problem that dependent projects are always built to the same goal/phase as the selected project(s). That is fine for e.g. {{compile}} or {{install}}, but not for e.g. {{test}} where you would only want to build {{compile}} (or {{test-compile}}) for dependencies, not actually test them.
> Suggest a variant form of this parameter (say {{--also-make-phase}} / {{-amp}}) which would accept a goal or phase to run on dependencies in place of the regular arguments. For example, to run a unit test after making sure all its dependencies have been (re-)compiled:
> {noformat}
> mvn -amp test-compile -pl testedmod test -Dtest=OneTest
> {noformat}
> or to run an (unpacked) web application after (re-)compiling libraries it uses:
> {noformat}
> mvn -amp compile -pl webapp jetty:run
> {noformat}
> You might want to pass a goal rather than a phase, so the name could be misleading, but I think that would be a rarer use case. Ditto passing multiple goals/phases for the upstream projects.

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