On 4 Dec 06, at 9:59 AM 4 Dec 06, Ralph Goers wrote:
Richard,
I love this idea and hate it at the same time. The idea of using
numbers, as I'm sure has been pointed out before, just seems awful.
But I understand what you are driving at. If there was a way to
register named phases with the numbers that would be better.
OTOH, wouldn't it be better just to allow the list of phases to be
specified in settings.xml?
Ralph
You can always make your own lifecycle, which is not that hard if you
really need it. We will only expand the lifecycle as the need
requires. It will never become a mess of spaghetti like Maven 1.x. To
allow free form to accommodate the ever shrinking number of cases we
can't handle is just not worth it. The standard lifecycle then
disappears and Maven becomes a very hard to explain. It one of the
fundamental differences between Maven and everything else and though
we run up against some limitations it is one of Maven's most powerful
attributes.
Jason.
Richard van der Hoff wrote:
Brett Porter wrote:
Actually, before we jump into this, let's consider the use case
at hand. While easily solved by pre-package at this point, we may
find other needs.
To take these suggestions even further, perhaps the idea of a
fixed set of phases is too limiting. An alternative would be to
number phases, from (say) 0 to 1000, with the current named phases
as aliases for 100, 200, etc. Then it's easy for plugins which
need it to slip in an extra phase.
I've lost count of the number of times I've told people on #maven
that there is no way to ensure that a particular execution runs
between phases X and Y. Admittedly, there's a bug which means that
execution order isn't preserved within a phase, and fixing that
would ameliorate this.
Anyway, I'm fully expected to be shouted down, and told that this
will only lead to confusion; however, I think it's worth considering.
Cheers,
Richard
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