Hi Mavens,
I was browsing through the dist plugin source code and I have a few
questions/remarks/proposal:
1/ Are the following properties used at all or can they be deleted:
maven.dist.tar.executable=tar
maven.dist.gunzip.executable=gunzip
2/ Why is there a dependency to the jar:jar goal in the dist plugin? What if
I'm building a WAR? Wouldn't it be better if the dist does not call any
artifact building code at all (letting the user do it) or if the goal called
is pluggable?
Note: This is also required if the artifact is built by a top level
multiproject goal (I have such a need in Cargo where I aggregate several
jars into a single big one).
I think we would need 2 properties:
- one for specifying a goal to call (the goal that generates the artifacts
to include in the distrib)
- one for specifying the locations of the generated artifacts. It would need
to be a list as a multiproject can generate several artifacts. We would
remove the existing "maven.dist.bin.artifact" property.
3/ Same question for the site: what if I'm building a multiproject and the
site goal is multiproject:site or a custom goal?
We would also need 2 properties:
- one for specifying the goal to call that generates the site
- one for specifying the generates doc directory (would default to
${maven.docs.dest})
4/ Could we add 2 properties:
- maven.dist.type.zip = true|false
- maven.dist.type.targz = true|false
They would both default to true.
Thanks
-Vincent
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