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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com> on 2005/11/02 23:47:32 UTC

Re: [m2] How can I register an archiver?

I think you'll find that this goal already exists in the SVN version
of the assembly plugin.

- Brett

On 11/3/05, Alexander Hars <al...@inventivio.com> wrote:
> The assembly mechanism has a small problem: It can not be used to just
> copy plain files plus dependencies into some target directory structure
> (without compressing/zipping/packing or changing the copied files in any
> way).
> In my case, I need this because I am using an unsupported packaging
> mechanism (I am generating an installation executable using a command
> line install file generator). But there are probably many other cases
> where this would be useful. There is at least one other user who has
> created his own plugin to get around some of these problems but I
> believe the best approach would be to just add another non-packaging
> archiver.
>
> I have looked into the codehaus archiver classes. It would be easy to
> add my own AbstractArchiver descendant but it would have to be
> registered by the  ArchiverManager. How can that be done?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> - Alexander
>
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