One interesting problem here is ossrh. Since you can only have one parent, people will have to choose between this one and the ossrh parent. Or you could make two of this. Or you could just make this an archetype?
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > this proposal isn't related to a plugin. Nevertheless, my personal > feeling is that Mojo would be a good place for it. > > In Maven 3, a lot of improvements have been made. Unfortunately, this > includes some that I personally consider questionable, in particular > the decision to remove deployment of site.xml by default and removal > of most of the wagon plugins. It has been required to add code > handling these to almost any project I am aware of, either directly or > indirectly by updating the parent. > > I am aware of some other settings, which I would personally call > recommended, like setting the source encoding to UTF8, specifying a > directory src/main/filtered-resources, adding goals like > source:jar-no-fork and javadoc:jar to the release profile and other > stuff like that. These are basically constant upon every project I am > aware of. Nevertheless, they need to be handled in every project > again, thus cluttering the pom, which should be as plain and simple as > possible. > > My idea would be to provide a parent pom for other projects, not for > Mojo. We might call it simple-project-parent, or something similar. > The idea is that new projects, which live outside Mojo might derive > from it. Stuff like plugin version numbers etc. would stay outside, > because these are definitely project dependent. > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > > Jochen > > -- > I Am What I Am And That's All What I Yam (Popeye) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
