[jira] Closed: (MPH-26) New goal help:help to provide help on how to use helper plugins in maven

["Vincent Siveton (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-26?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Vincent Siveton closed MPH-26.
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       Resolution: Won't Fix
    Fix Version/s: 2.1

Should be done by the maven-plugin-plugin
mvn help:help will display

{noformat}
...
[INFO] [help:help]
[INFO] The 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin' plugin has 9 goals:

help:active-profiles
  Lists the profiles which are currently active for this build.

help:system
  Lists the platform details like system properties and environment variables.
...
{noformat}

Also MPH-30 could help you.

> New goal help:help to provide help on how to use helper plugins in maven
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MPH-26
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-26
>             Project: Maven 2.x Help Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.0
>            Reporter: Eirik Maus
>             Fix For: 2.1
>
>
> It is almost impossible to remember the usage of the helper utility plugins in maven. Every single time I have problems with transient dependencies I end up searching google for "maven help plugin" and "maven dependency plugin". That is not good enough. 
> The help plugin should have a goal called help, describing the usage of the plugin. This would make help (or, rather, a bootstrap on how to use the help system) available under the obvious command "mvn help:help". This goal could also hint about the existence of the dependency plugin, since many of the difficult problems when using maven are related to complex transitive dependencies. 
> The command "mvn -help" should also describe the use of the maven-help-plugin, but I will create a separate issue in the maven core module for that. 

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