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Posted to issues@maven.apache.org by "Olav Reinert (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org> on 2007/05/20 11:48:59 UTC
[jira] Commented: (MNG-2609) Mention 'activeByDefault' in the
"Introduction to Build Profiles" guide
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2609?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_96394 ]
Olav Reinert commented on MNG-2609:
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Also, the current description of 'activeByDefault' in the POM reference (http://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-model/maven.html) is sort of misleading, I find. At least, it doesn't add any value beside what the tag name itself offers: "Flag specifying whether this profile is active by default."
Diving a bit deeper (i.e., reading the discussions in related bug reports, such as MNG-835 and MNG-2136) it becomes clear that the semantics of 'activeByDefault' are not entirely trivial. The tag makes sense to have, and it's useful, but unfortunately it remains largely undocumented...
> Mention 'activeByDefault' in the "Introduction to Build Profiles" guide
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> Key: MNG-2609
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2609
> Project: Maven 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation: Guides
> Reporter: Gwyn Evans
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> It appears to be that the primary use-case for someone considering profiles would be the requirement to modify an existing build in some way to accomodate a 'special-case'. As such, it seems to me that a mention of the activation option 'activeByDefault' should be added.
> At present, the document implies that there either needs to be a change in the command line (e,g, "-Denv-prod") or some form of environment parsing to have the build run as before, whereas 'activeByDefault' show that's not so but is not mentioned.
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