Sam writes:

| dIon Gillard wrote:
| >
| >  any objection to me changing the 'from' name for Maven generated
| > descriptors to 'Maven Developers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
| ?
| > Since, if there's anything wrong with the descriptor, that's the best
| > place to report it?
|
| At the moment, that may seem wise, but will it scale?  Once Maven
| stabilizes and gets even a fraction of the usage of Ant, will the
maven-dev
| development list still be the most likely place to look for assistance?
Maybe...or maven users...

| In any case, experiment and see what's best.
|
| Thought experiment: what happens when there is a change to Maven needed?
| How can you be sure that it doesn't adversely impact the various projects
| which use maven?  Wouldn't it be nice if the various gump related files
| which were generated by Maven could be regenerated as a part of the Gump
| run instead of using possibly stale versions from cvs?  What changes to
| Maven and/or Gump would be required to make this work?
Maven can regenerate the descriptors fairly easily, except that it makes an
assumption about the 'project' that conflict with Gump:

- Maven assumes the project is the only one in the module (at the moment,
although this is changing), as Maven has no concept yet of a module. This
means for commons projects the descriptor is not easily integrated into the
existing one.

This is changing, and project/subproject (module style) relationships are
currently in the plan.
To get this to work with Gump would mean that Gump could ask a Maven
project to regenerate it's gump descriptor before building it, i.e. call
maven:gump-descriptor before maven:dist-build

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dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
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