NSIS was decoupled from dist a while back.
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:43:41 +1100, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vincent Massol wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >
> They can now be removed.
>
> >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 don't think dist was ever built to consider wider use cases.
>
> >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)
> >
> >
> that's simple enough. Should be more than one goal though.
>
> >- 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?
> >
> >
> I think in both your question is "what if I'm bundling more than one
> project into a single distribution". I think it is more complicated than
> just adding in some more properties.
>
> >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})
> >
> >
> I'm not sure why these are needed.
>
> >4/ Could we add 2 properties:
> >- maven.dist.type.zip = true|false
> >- maven.dist.type.targz = true|false
> >
> >They would both default to true.
> >
> >
> >
> .tarbz2, -src.targz, etc.
> and maybe
> .exe (we already have nsis using dist), .sh, .tar, .jar, .ace, .rar, ...
>
> How many properties can we add?
>
> I don't think this is a problem solved by adding properties. We need a
> better way to map out distributions and handle project aggregation.
>
> - Brett
>
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