assembly plugin usage

[Jason van Zyl <ja...@maven.org>]

Howdy,

I'm just doing some more doco on the assembly plugin (mostly lifting
Johnny's work - thanks!) and I wanted to ask folks what they think the
most common use is when specifying multiple assemblies.

Say you have three assemblies, namely a binary, source, and an all-dep
assembly. Do you think when creating assemblies you would always create
all three?

If so it might be easier to list a set of descriptors instead of having
to create separate executions for each assembly descriptor.

So right now if you have multiple assemblies, and therefore multiple
descriptors, you don't have the <descriptor/> element specified and you
use a command line option to specify the descriptor. So if you wanted to
make all three that might get a little tedious. So that's the question:
when you are making assemblies would you naturally be making all of
them? If so I think a list of descriptors is more appropriate. If not,
then what we have is fine.

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Jason van Zyl
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Re: assembly plugin usage

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

I think a list of descriptors is appropriate. You usually want to do
them together.

We can include both and phase out the original single liner (or keep it
as short hand).

Are there any other concerns surrounding this?

- Brett

Jason van Zyl wrote:

>Howdy,
>
>I'm just doing some more doco on the assembly plugin (mostly lifting
>Johnny's work - thanks!) and I wanted to ask folks what they think the
>most common use is when specifying multiple assemblies.
>
>Say you have three assemblies, namely a binary, source, and an all-dep
>assembly. Do you think when creating assemblies you would always create
>all three?
>
>If so it might be easier to list a set of descriptors instead of having
>to create separate executions for each assembly descriptor.
>
>So right now if you have multiple assemblies, and therefore multiple
>descriptors, you don't have the <descriptor/> element specified and you
>use a command line option to specify the descriptor. So if you wanted to
>make all three that might get a little tedious. So that's the question:
>when you are making assemblies would you naturally be making all of
>them? If so I think a list of descriptors is more appropriate. If not,
>then what we have is fine.
>
>  
>

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