Hi I have a question regarding the use of the install:install-file goal for instalation of a Codehaus mojo. I managed to install the Cobertura mojo, but I am sure I didn't do it in the intended manner.
>From the page http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-install-plugin/install-file-mojo.html I expected to be able to install the pojo as follows: mvn install:install-file -Dfile= http://repository.codehaus.org/org/codehaus/mojo/cobertura-maven-plugin/2.1/c obertura-maven-plugin-2.1.jar -DpomFile= http://repository.codehaus.org/org/code haus/mojo/cobertura-maven-plugin/2.1/cobertura-maven-plugin-2.1.pom But this fails with a message telling me that groupId, artifactId, packaging and version are required. I expected these to be picked up from the POM. In the end I had to download the plug-in's jar file manually (because it treated the url I specified on the command line as a directory path relative to the directory I was in! ) and open the POM to get the missing details. Finally I got it working with: mvn install:install-file -Dfile=c:/mydir/cobertura-maven-plugin-2.1.jar-DgroupId= org.codehaus.mojo -Dversion=2.1 -DartifactId=cobertura-maven-plugin -Dpackaging=maven-plugin Obviously this is not the clever way to do it. I guess I just needed some way to specify that I pom and jar locations were urls,not file paths, but I am not sure how. What should I have dome? Thanks! Gary
