Hi, New Resolver 1.8.x which is included in Maven 3.9.x has many valuable features, like split local repository. There are many configuration options for Resolver [1]
Currently all those options can be set by - user properties by command line - not usable - system properties provided by globally by MAVEN_OPTS or per project in .mvn/jvm.config It will be very useful if we can add such properties to settings.xml in order to support global configuration per system. In many case settings.xml is managed externally like on CI systems, so it is easy to add new properties. Now when we want to use new properties globally we need to manage a new item - MAVEN_OPTS, in this case it can contain long text, not human readable. ===== Evaluating properties from settings.xml is done somewhere later after RepositorySystemSession is created ... Before DefaultRepositorySystemSessionFactory#newRepositorySession - SettingsXmlConfigurationProcessor#process is executed but properties are not processed from active profiles .... What do you think to populate properties from active profiles here ... to CliRequest - System/UserProperties or to cliRequest.getRequest() - System/UserProperties ===== Any other ideas to easily manage configuration for Resolver. [1] https://maven.apache.org/resolver/configuration.html -- Sławomir Jaranowski
