[jira] Updated: (MNG-3515) Allow several synonymous main artifacts, e.g. zip and tar.gz, just like you can have with a classifier

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3515?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Brett Porter updated MNG-3515:
------------------------------

    Fix Version/s: 2.0.x

it makes sense that we support just type changes for secondary artifacts, and should not require a classifier.

I'd need to check if this is already possible with Maven and is only a plugin limitation

> Allow several synonymous main artifacts, e.g. zip and tar.gz, just like you can have with a classifier
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-3515
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3515
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: David Jencks
>             Fix For: 2.0.x
>
>
> It's possible for a project to generate several synonymous main artifacts that are different packagings of the same content.  The specific case I ran across is in https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/branches/activemq-4.1 assembly module rev 646965.
> The build happily constructs apache-activemq-4.1-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz/tar.bz2/zip artifacts in target but does not install or deploy them.  However if I add a "bin" classifier all the artifacts are installed/deployed.  
> Another possible example that jdcasey suggested would be a project that constructs both dll and so files.
> I don't see how this could introduce any ambiguity since any dependency on a non-jar artifact has to AFAIK specify the type explicitly.
>  

-- 
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa
-
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira