Yes, it appears that I have a different mental model for plugins than Maven provides. Let me explain what I'm trying to accomplish, and perhaps a better high-level approach is available:
I work on Gosu (http://gosu-lang.org) a small language for the JVM. Me and a few other guys are trying to get Gosu to play well with Maven. Unfortunately for us, Gosu has a slightly different compilation model than Java: it is source based and lazily compiled, like many scripting languages. We don't (currently) generate .class files, rather we compile and load them dynamically at runtime. Our goal with our Maven plugin is to make Gosu participate, as transparently as possible, with the various Maven phases, given that constraint. Ideally, we would hook into the compile phase (the equivalent in Gosu would be to verify the source), the test phase (sounds like we the surefire API may make this easy/possible), etc. The way I was thinking about it, I'd prefer the user to not have to configure our plugin for any phases at all: I'd just want them to say something like this: <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.gosu-lang</groupId> <artifactId>maven-gosu-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> <configuration> <gosuVersion>0.9-SNAPSHOT</gosuVersion> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> And never have to mention phases or goals at all, and let the plugin wire itself in to the appropriate places to make gosu work. So that's what I'm trying to accomplish, and, as a total Maven noob, I'm happy to hear suggestions, clarifications of my language or other thoughts. Thanks, Carson On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Jochen Wiedmann <[email protected]>wrote: > Sure you really want to do that? It would amount to hard wiring your > plugin to a certain phase, whereas > a plugin should typically be able to run in any phase, depending on the > POM. > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Carson Gross <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'd like to detect the current phase of a build within a plugin's > execute() > > method. I dug around in the project object and plugin context, but > > couldn't find it. Can anyone point me the right direction? > > > > Cheers, > > Carson > > > > -- > "Bildung kommt von Bildschirm und nicht von Buch, sonst hieße es ja > Buchung." > Dieter Hildebrandt > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
