Re: [jira] Created: (MNG-4169) Remove invocation of maven-plugin-plugin:updatePluginRegistry from default lifecycle bindings

[Brian Fox <br...@infinity.nu>]

+1

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:51 PM, John Casey <jd...@commonjava.org> wrote:

> Sounds good to me. If we remove it from the default lifecycle mapping,
> people could always add it back in...at least then they'd definitely know if
> they need it. :-)
>
> Having said that, I'd be *very* surprised if anyone is actually using the
> plugin registry...
>
> -john
>
>
> Benjamin Bentmann wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  Remove invocation of maven-plugin-plugin:updatePluginRegistry from
>>> default lifecycle bindings
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>                 Key: MNG-4169
>>>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4169
>>>             Project: Maven 2
>>>          Issue Type: Task
>>>          Components: Plugins and Lifecycle
>>>            Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
>>>            Priority: Minor
>>>
>>>
>>> The plugin registry will be removed from 3.x (plugin versions should be
>>> locked down in the POM for machine-independent builds). A user visible
>>> consequence of this is that the goal
>>> {{maven-plugin-plugin:updatePluginRegistry}} will no longer be called
>>> automatically for projects with packaging {{maven-plugin}}.
>>>
>>>
>> I would like to see how others think about properly phasing out the plugin
>> registry. For instance, how soon should be remove the corresponding goal
>> from the maven-plugin-plugin? Possibly as a prerequiste (I haven't checked
>> what Maven does in case a lifecycle-induced goal is not found), how soon
>> should we remove the lifecycle mapping from 2.x (if at all)?.
>>
>> A concrete idea could be to take the opportunity of the pending minor
>> update Maven 2.2 and remove the lifecycle mapping right now.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
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