dIon,I agree with dIon here.
I don't quite agree. Each of these plugins are separate. Sharing the same properties ties them together. I would agree, provided the multiproject plugin provides some useful infrastructure for all plugins dealing with several projects. In which case the other plugins would "extend" it and it would make sense to share properties. Tying them together just to share some properties does not seem enough to me to justify the tie.
Ideas?
We have alredy have a set of properties which are shared among plugins and even such properties which don't belong
to any plugin (like ${maven.build.dest}}.
I see that you are not happy about the fact that multiproject plugin is in some way favourized.
Then we can imagine to have( as for this just compilcates things for end user):
maven.reactor.basedir=${basedir}
maven.reactor.includes=*/project.xml
maven.reactor.excludes=**/target/**/project.xml,project.xml
maven.reactor.ignoreFailures=false(and then default setting per plugin)
maven.multiproject.basedir=${maven.reactor.basedir}
maven.multiproject.includes=${maven.reactor.includes}
maven.multiproject.excludes=${maven.reactor.excludes}
maven.multiproject.ignoreFailures={maven.reactor.ignoreFailures}
maven.multichanges.basedir=${maven.reactor.basedir} maven.multichanges.includes=${maven.reactor.includes} maven.multichanges.excludes=${maven.reactor.excludes}
maven.multichanges.ignoreFailures=${maven.reactor.ignoreFailures}
So no plugin is favourized.
The fundamental question here is: shall we use properties which belong to no plugin and what technical problems it can cause.
If this should be recommended or forbbiden pratice.
I personally have noting against using properties of multiproject plugin in other plugins.
[completly off topic]We can even imagine to have plugins of the multiproject plugin:
so multiproject is a plugin which runs reactor in favour of its plugins and those plugins can be e.g plugged into maven reporting API.
Plugins of multiproject need not even be plugins in maven sense. They can be scripts or java classes
In case of reactor-powered plugins this can speed up many things in significant way.
Michal
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