Re: Question regarding inheritance vs pluginManagement

2009-08-13 Thread Stephen Connolly
2009/8/13 Éric Daigneault dai...@gmail.com: Thanks for answering and clarify the documentation. I also looked into profiles and it looked quite promising but limitations on how they are activated and inherited let me to (yet another) dead end. This however leaves me hung dry... how else can

Question regarding inheritance vs pluginManagement

2009-08-12 Thread Éric Daigneault
Hi, I was refactoring my projects to make better use of dependency management and pluginManagement. Almost got it all to work the way I want but I hit a wall in how the pluginManagement is used. When looking at the definition in the documentation find the following *pluginManagement: is an

Re: Question regarding inheritance vs pluginManagement

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Fox
The docs are wrong. Although it is often used for inheritence, it most definitely applies to the current project as well. The pluginManagement provides defaults to the plugins if they are used, either from the cli, default lifecycle bindings, or explicit bindings in the pom. See here for more

Re: Question regarding inheritance vs pluginManagement

2009-08-12 Thread Éric Daigneault
Thanks for answering and clarify the documentation. I also looked into profiles and it looked quite promising but limitations on how they are activated and inherited let me to (yet another) dead end. This however leaves me hung dry... how else can I obtain the desired functionality (modulate