RE: How to activate a profile when -offline?

2015-02-08 Thread Martin Gainty
From: mgai...@hotmail.com To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: RE: How to activate a profile when -offline? Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:03:01 -0500 From: ctrue...@wisc.edu Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:11:34 -0600 Subject: Re: How to activate a profile when -offline? To: users

RE: How to activate a profile when -offline?

2015-02-08 Thread Martin Gainty
when -offline? Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 19:45:54 -0500 From: mgai...@hotmail.com To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: RE: How to activate a profile when -offline? Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:03:01 -0500 From: ctrue...@wisc.edu Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:11:34 -0600 Subject: Re

How to activate a profile when -offline?

2015-02-05 Thread Andreas Sewe
Hi, sometimes it's useful to configure a Maven plugin depending on whether the build runs in online or offline mode (-offline command-line option). Now, using mvn help:effective-settings -offline shows that ${settings.offline} == true. Alas, I cannot get the following profile to activate:

Re: How to activate a profile when -offline?

2015-02-05 Thread Andreas Sewe
Hi Curtis, many thanks for your detailed reply. You wrote: Is this by design, i.e., is ${settings.offline} different from, say, a property ${my.offline} that I activate with -D? For better or for worse, Maven profiles cannot be activated based on Maven properties, only based on Java system

Re: How to activate a profile when -offline?

2015-02-05 Thread Curtis Rueden
Hi Andreas, Now, one might argue that the m-jarsigner-p needs to become smarter and aware of Maven's offline mode, but that would require it to deal with special cases, like localhost URLs being reachable even in offline mode I would argue that, yeah. And that it should ignore such special

Re: How to activate a profile when -offline?

2015-02-05 Thread Curtis Rueden
Hi Andreas, Is this by design, i.e., is ${settings.offline} different from, say, a property ${my.offline} that I activate with -D? For better or for worse, Maven profiles cannot be activated based on Maven properties, only based on Java system properties and/or environment variables. That is,

RE: How to activate a profile when -offline?

2015-02-05 Thread Martin Gainty
From: ctrue...@wisc.edu Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:11:34 -0600 Subject: Re: How to activate a profile when -offline? To: users@maven.apache.org Hi Andreas, Now, one might argue that the m-jarsigner-p needs to become smarter and aware of Maven's offline mode, but that would require