Good evening, all.
Today, maven-site-plugin performs its site:stage goal by copying the site
of a project into a staging directory, and relativizing some URLs. The
latter part is done by calculating the difference between the current
project's ${project.distributionManagement.site.url} and
the ${project.distributionManagement.site.url} of the topmost parent pom,
retrieved from the current project.
The MSITE-699 patch (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSITE-669) currently
introduces an optional parameter to permit relativizing the URLs in a
staged site against the ${project.distributionManagement.site.url} of the
reactor root pom instead. This flexibility simplifies site:stage for
nonstandard reactor layouts.
However - I believe it could be more powerful/flexible/desirable to simply
add an optional parameter to the site:stage goal with the desired root URL
(i.e. giving the users the ability to supply the effective site:stage root
URL as a [command line] configuration parameter). This would enable users
to create staged sites for parts of a reactor with relative ease - which
would be an improvement to the current site:stage goal.
It would certainly be a simple patch to supply.
What do you think?
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| Bästa hälsningar,
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| Lennart Jörelid
| EAI Architect & Integrator
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