+1 Vincent
2008/12/17, John Casey <jdca...@commonjava.org>: > Hi everyone, > > It's been quite awhile since we released a new version of the Assembly > Plugin, and there have been some important fixes. Along with the plugin > itself, its dependencies contain some improvements, and all of it is ready > to be released for use (at least, that's my opinion). > > Since the assembly plugin depends on releases for maven-archiver and > maven-common-artifact-filters, I'm hoping to clear them all for release at > once. Some of the highlights for the assembly plugin and its dependencies > include: > > - avoiding inclusion of duplicate paths by default > > - allowing archiver configuration from the POM > > - detection of file/dir mode, owner, group information on non-Windows > systems > > - preservation of file/dir mode, owner, group information when archives > supporting them are unpacked into an assembly > > - outputFileNameMapping/outputDirectory expression > improvements > > ...and many, many other things. > > You can find the staging repository for these releases at: > > http://people.apache.org/~jdcasey/stage > > ...and, you can pick up these staged releases for use in your build with > the following addition to your POM: > > <repositories> > <repository> > <id>jdcasey.staged</id> > <name>John's Staged Releases</name> > <url>http://people.apache.org/~jdcasey/stage/</url> > <snapshots> > <enabled>false</enabled> > </snapshots> > </repository> > </repositories> > <pluginRepositories> > <pluginRepository> > <id>jdcasey.staged</id> > <name>John's Staged Releases</name> > <url>http://people.apache.org/~jdcasey/stage/</url> > <snapshots> > <enabled>false</enabled> > </snapshots> > </pluginRepository> > </pluginRepositories> > > Full release notes for the Assembly Plugin are here: > > http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11126&styleName=Html&version=13507 > > Release notes for Maven Archiver are here: > > http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11761&styleName=Html&version=14483 > > And sorry, I can't seem to find release notes for the Common Artifact > Filters project. This is probably because issues for this project often show > up in different projects...in this case, the Assembly Plugin. > > Please take a minute and try out the new Assembly Plugin, and then vote: > > [ ] +1...Go, man, go! > [ ] +0...Meh. > [ ] -1...Yeah, no thanks. > > Here's my +1. > > Thanks, > > -john > > --- > John Casey > Developer and PMC Member, Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org) > Member, Apache Software Foundation > Blog: http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/buildchimp > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
