Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 04.12.2006 16:51:30: > You can always make your own lifecycle, which is not that hard if you > really need it.[...]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.
I'm not against the standard life cycle. I'm against the "executions" elements in the POM :-) What I would like to see is to get rid of "executions" and add "depends" where you can name arbitrary phases. Some will come from the standard life cycle of maven, others will be created by the POM. That would allow to weave in arbitrary complex phase dependencies as you need them. They would not pollute the core or any other plugins. So basically just add an interface which allows me to inject new phases from my POMs and Mojos. And while we're at it: How about merging phases and goals? What is the big difference between them anyway? Isn't that something which new users always wonder about and which you could easily hide behind the scenes? Regards, -- Aaron Digulla --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
