On 28 Jul 07, at 5:41 PM 28 Jul 07, Jason Dillon wrote:
Heh, ya, no kidding. At this point I'm just trying to start a
dialog with the community to get feedback.... on the concept,
potential impacts, potential roadbumps, as well as maybe a hint or
two of like "if you wanted to try, maybe you could look at X.class
and see how parent merging goes, blah, blah, blah" ;-)
The key that's missing is no spec on inheritance/aggregation of each
element given the influence of profiles, settings and interpolation.
Once that was sorted out then importing a chunk of into a given POM
should not change the spec'd behaviour. But implementing that
mechanism without this spec would only cause more grief IMO.
Cheers,
--jason
I would really like to define a simple pom module, that defines
some common pom elements, maybe in a profile, maybe not. And
then configure my projects root pom (er the top-level pom that
is) to *include* the pom modules to get that poms elements
overlaid into the current effective pom. In the same way that
works for the parent really. Maybe first apply includes/imports
(whatever you call them) then parent, and then local overrides
take precedence or something like that.
Of course reference the poms to be included in the same way that
the parent is defined, yada, yada, yada.
IMO, this would be a *HUGE* benefit to the entire Maven
community, as then at this point folks can start to develop and
share common build configurations and let projects consume them
easily.
It doesn't seem like rocket science... though I've not dug into
the depths of the plexus, modelo and other bits that made the pom
inheritance bits work.
Just for clarification, I'm not for tossing out the parent/child
bits, those are also important, but I think we need a kinda mixin
for pom configuration too.
Any thoughts?
--jason
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