[jira] Commented: (MDEP-178) Create a goal to download single artifact transitively

["Dan Tran (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Dan Tran commented on MDEP-178:
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can we turn off the transitive download? This is where I want to download a larger installer and dont want any attachments.

can we change localRepostitory location? I would like to download the artifact to my target directory so I can clean it via maven clean.  And therefor the current  local repo is not poluted.



> Create a goal to download single artifact transitively
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MDEP-178
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-178
>             Project: Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Dan Fabulich
>            Assignee: Dan Fabulich
>             Fix For: 2.1
>
>
> I've always found it to be a hassle to test plugins that don't need to be wired up in POM files, e.g. the archetype, dependency, scm plugins.  I find that to test them I have to create a dummy POM file with a <pluginRepositories> section, as described in our guide to testing staged releases.
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-releases.html
> I thought it would be cool to have a downloader goal that let you do this:
>   mvn dependency:get
>     -Dartifact=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1
>     -DrepoUrl=http://people.apache.org/~olamy/staging-repo
> That would retrieve the plugin into your local repository, so you could immediately start using it.
>   mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1:checkin -Dmessage=foo

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