Vincent Massol wrote: > Why? You're making the assumption that the plugins are part of Maven > core! However, if you consider that Maven core is not about the plugins, > then, you don't care if the plugins come in binary form. Same as you > don't want to build jelly from the source, right?
I think we are getting into a philosopical discussion, but since you asked: If we decouple all plugins from the core it will be impossible to truly bootstrap maven (=compile it from sources without access to binary form). This is because compiling plugins requires binary core and comiling core requires binary plugins. In the current scenario it's possible to compile binary core and binary plugins relying without relying on a binary version of neither available from elsewhere. Same will be true if we keep plugins needed to bulild core + themselves from source in a single CVS module. R. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
