With the repository plugin, the use of the parent scope is to 'return' a 
variable from a tag in a plugin. The use of the system scope is to access 
system properties.

With the plugin plugin, it's used to read a property file into it's own 
scope and pass them as a single map back to the parent.

These, or something to replace them are necessary.
--
dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
Blog:      http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
Work:      http://www.multitask.com.au


Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/06/2003 05:59:52 AM:

> Howdy,
> 
> The last hiccup I've run into is the jelly scope test in the touchstone
> build. I looked at it and wondered why this is even needed so I looked
> through the plugins and found all sorts of references to setting
> variables with scopes. The following plugins have this attribute:
> 
> clover
> javadoc
> junit-report
> plugin
> repository
> 
> For anyone who added the use of scopes what exactly is the purpose? I'm
> trying to clarify where things are defined and the exact behaviour of
> contexts. Are these uses for cross-plugin communication? I would really
> like to eliminate the use of scopes all together.
> 
> -- 
> jvz.
> 
> Jason van Zyl
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> 
> In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational
> and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it.
> 
>   -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
> 
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