-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there,
thanks for your response. > There seems to be a bit of overlap with versions-maven-plugin... correct. > > I am against overlap as it leads to user confusion.... I agree in general and was aware of this. I just put this into sandbox and would not mind, if my code or just the features get merged into some other plugin... However the name "version-maven-plugin" implies a tight scope to be all about versions. To refactor the groupId, change scopes, replace dependencies, etc. nobody will try to evaluate a plugin called "version-maven-plugin". But as your plugin is already quite in use, I doubt that you are keen on renaming your plugin. > > I see no reason why we could not accomodate the refactor mojo in versions... > > mvn versions:refactor -DoldGroupId=___ -DnewGroupId=____ > -DoldVersion=____ -DnewVersion=____ As I said there are some features that versions-plugin does not yet cover and that might not even fit in there... > > for other pom based manipulation I see nothing wrong > with a pom-maven-plugin... That argumentation does not make sense to me. Then one can also say there is an overlap with release-plugin and therefore versions-plugin has to drop some features. > > but given that versions-maven-plugin does 95% of > what teh refactor mojo does already I see versions > as a better fit. Its nothing too exciting, however I would not talk about percentages here... It has just a little different philosophy and has some nice features you do not cover yet. Of course there are tons of features in version-plugin that pom-plugin does not have and I do not intend to reinvent them. I am absolutely open for discussion in how to bring things together, but IMHO this will only work if both sides move and I know this takes time and energy. I also created pkg-maven-plugin in sandbox and in discussion with Trygve I saw that his unix-maven-plugin is the proper solution so I deleted pkg-maven-plugin from sandbox. Hopefully I will find more time to support unix-maven-plugin by the end of the year... In the first step, I wrote pom-maven-plugin for me and some friends that have the same need and it fits perfectly. Now I just wanted to see if this could be helpful for others. Maybe it would even help to first bring energy together in extracting a generic library for bringing the MavenProject-world and the pom.xml-world together as I am sure that both our plugins and also many other plugins all try to solve there problems - some better some worse. This is nothing where maven is very strong at the moment - except I missed something. However something that should be better to discuss on the maven dev list... > > -Stephen Thanks Jörg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqzq/cACgkQmPuec2Dcv/+ILgCfQkObbPh8gY5JuMLXIazxKEOt 458AoIc/6IY7oDTrpskfej1Nz0cwkD74 =ze5U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
