setup-maven-plugin
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Key: MOJO-1407
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-1407
Project: Mojo
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: _Plugin Submission
Reporter: Robert Scholte
Attachments: setup-maven-plugin.zip
Hereby a start of a new plugin I've been working on lately. I called it the
setup-maven-plugin.
It's goal is to help users (especially newbies) to setup maven settings and
other configurationfiles.
The idea started after introducing maven to several companies, and letting the
developers set their environment to a network repository.
Getting started with maven might be some sort of struggle. And what if you even
have to create a .m2 folder (pretty hard under windows) and build your own
settings.
In my opinion it shouldn't be much more complicated then a *mvn
setup:userSettings* in any directory. This should help anyone settings it's
maven.
It's a start, so let me be the first one to be critical:
- right now this plugin supports 3 kinds of settings: the user/global-settings,
scm-settings and settings-security. Especially the scm requires a lot of
dependencies, which is a lot of overhead for the other goals.
- The same goals is some sort of 2-step rocket. The first time you run it you
will probably get the template in your current directory. The next time it will
be copied to or merged with the target-file. This is done to keep the name of
the goals as simple as possible, but I'm not sure if this is the right way to
go.
- I've created two goals (setup:settings and setup:scm) which should help the
user step by step to run the proper goal (interactive). It's just an idea,
hasn't been worked out completely.
- I couldn't get access to some File properties of DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder,
so I had to use reflection.
- for almost every scm-version I had to write a SettingsUtils and a xpp3Writer.
For cvs and git I couldn't get access to the targetfile (is inside some
method), so testing was impossible. I've create already some tests, called them
....Testless. so they will be skipped by maven, although not by eclipse.
- there are some issues of dependencies which hasn't been released yet, so I
had to rewrite some of that code inside some classes.
- I'm not happy with the expressions of the goals yet, requires a second look.
There are also some site-pages which might explain the strategy of these goals
a little bit.
One wish is to have this plugin be available in at least codehaus, so newbies
don't have to run an extreme long goal.
I've already had positive responses, so I thought by now it's time to submit
the plugin and see what kind of remarks the community will make. Meanwhile I'll
optimize the project, I have some other nice features in mind so I won't be
done yet.
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