[jira] Closed: (MAVEN-1329) Provide informative plugins

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

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVEN-1329?page=all ]
     
Brett Porter closed MAVEN-1329:
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

not in the 1.x series.

> Provide informative plugins
> ---------------------------
>
>          Key: MAVEN-1329
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVEN-1329
>      Project: maven
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: plugin manager
>     Reporter: Peter Nabbefeld

>
>
> please provide some mechanism to ask a plugin for the parameters it uses, either from the commandline or from an application. This should not only result in a list of parameters, but also in a description of the parameter (and the plugin).
> On the commandline this could look like this:
> 1. Describe plugin
> maven describe plugin
> result:
> This plugin downloads and installs artifacts. Its goals are
> download
> ...
> 2. Describe goal
> maven describe plugin:download
> result:
> This goal downloads an artifact. It uses the following parameters:
> artifactId
> ...
> 3. Describe parameter
> maven describe plugin:download -DparamId=artifactId
> This parameter ...
> But of course, this is only a proposal how it could look like. On the other hand, to be able to do this programmatically, would it make easier to integrate maven with tools like IDEs. That's why I think, this is a bug: Maven is not easy to use, so tool integration will be an important matter for use of maven.

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