Hi Brett, What do you propose for cmd line switch?
Personally, I am fine with mvn my-plugin:help which seems more common. A lot of tools (all?) have an help option. Cheers, Vincent 2008/2/3, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Would a different lifecycle or command line switch be more intuitive > than this? > > On 04/02/2008, at 9:55 AM, Vincent Siveton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I realize that the fix for MPLUGIN-40 (All plugins should by default > > have an auto-generated goal 'help') is definitely *not* intuitive for > > the end user. > > > > Background: > > I created a plugin-plugin goal which generates an Help mojo. This > > generated mojo just displays the goals and their > > description/parameters for a given plugin project. Since it is a goal > > inside the maven-plugin-plugin, we need to release it and *all* > > plugins to make available this new feature (it could take a time ;) ). > > > > I proposed another approach: modify the DefaultLifecycleExecutor to > > handle this particular goal. So we could call "mvn idea:help" to > > display all available idea goals and "mvn idea:toto" will throw an > > exception by displaying the help. > > Pro: more easy for the end user and works for all plugins > > Con: just available in mvn 2.0.9+ > > > > WDYT? > > > > Vincent > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
