The method that we've pushed in a couple releases is a simple profile
which lists the staging repository where a test plugin has been
deployed. The profile can be generated with the release and it's a
separate file, so you just erase it when you're done with it. Think
the profile might be a bit simpler and we could certainly generate the
snippet from the staging plugin.
On 27-Aug-08, at 12:02 PM, Dan Fabulich wrote:
I've always found it to be a hassle to test plugins that don't need
to be wired up in POM files, e.g. the archetype, dependency, scm
plugins. I find that to test them I have to create a dummy POM file
with a <pluginRepositories> section, as described in our guide to
testing staged releases.
http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-releases.html
I thought it would be cool to have a downloader plugin that let you
do this:
mvn downloader:get
-Dartifact=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1
-DrepoUrl=http://people.apache.org/~olamy/staging-repo
That would retrieve the plugin into your local repository, so you
could immediately start using it.
mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1:checkin -
Dmessage=foo
I've created a prototype downloader plugin and checked it into the
sandbox; I used it to test the Maven SCM 1.1 release. It was pretty
nice.
Does this seem like something worth releasing and documenting as
part of our release testing guide?
-Dan
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