Re: deploy-snapshot vs. war:deploy-snapshot and ear:deploy-snapsh ot

[Michal Maczka <mm...@interia.pl>]

Brett Porter wrote:

>Hi Leif,
>
>(Sorry for CC'ing back to the list again, but they'll probably want to
>review this)
>
>Sounds like a good idea - perhaps a new protocol could be added to artifact
>(scpexe:// ?) that uses the mentioned parameters. Alternatively, it might be
>a branch of the existing protocl based on another property - however, I
>think the new protocol idea is better.
>
>Michal, do you have any current thoughts on the direction of artifact?
>
>Your changes would be welcome - just submit a patch to JIRA when you are
>done and I'll commit it and release a new version. Let me know if you want
>to bounce any more ideas around.
>
>  
>
There is a special type of deployer in maven-artifact plugin called 
"External", which was supposed to be used for executing arbitrary user 
defined programs (like putty). This deployer is "half-finished".  A new 
protocol sounds like a good idea.  Leif: Patches and documentation are 
always welcomed :)
If we have solution based on  external  programs which supports SSH 
(SCP)  which  works  both  on Windows and Linux, we can think about 
switching
from deploy plugins like to artifact plugin.

Generaly I am trying to provide pure java, ready to use out-of-the box solution. 
So my vision is: if there is Java libaray which does the same trick as external program - it should be used.
I am progressing with Artifact Transport Libaray called "Wagon" which probably will be used in future verions of Maven( after 1.0). It should be moved to Apache CVS repo in a matter of days.

The main problem with artifact plugin is that it is poorly tested.
I wonder how many people are actually using it and what kind of experinces they have with it...
Wagon has alredy much more unit tests and I am working on integration unit tests. 


regards 


Michal




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