In my defense, I was busy coding a plugin when I posed the question.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Brett Porter <[email protected]> wrote:
> You're probably better using the available plugin expressions for the 
> execution root rather than this.
>
> Also, the users@ list is the right place to ask the original question :)
>
> Cheers,
> Brett
>
> On 12/12/2010, at 11:15 AM, Benson Margulies wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Benjamin Bentmann
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Benson Margulies wrote:
>>>
>>>> Say that, in a parent pom, there is an execution of a plugin that sets
>>>> a property. (e.g. the build helper plugin's port reserver).
>>>>
>>>> Will those properties inherit down to the children?
>>>
>>> No, the runtime data of project instances is separated.
>>
>> Let me explain what I had in mind, perhaps there's a better way to
>> accomplish it.
>>
>> I was about to walk over a hierarchy of about 20 poms adding, to each,
>> a property like:
>>
>> <globalRoot>../../..</globalRoot>
>>
>> where the number of ..'s would be different depending on the hierarchy
>> location of the POM. So, I had this inspiration: make a plugin that
>> could be stuck at the very top that would set a property to the
>> absolute path of the top, and let it trickle down. Then individual
>> projects could reference some large, slow-to-copy items up there with
>> ${globalRoot}/refrigerator.
>>
>> Of course, my plugin doesn't work due to what you just told me. So, I
>> wonder -- is there some other way to do this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Benjamin
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