Good points, Stephen. As ancestors are not dependencies, I would prefer to enhance the help plugin instead. Ccing this to maven-dev
Regards Mirko -- Sent from my mobile On Jun 22, 2014 10:39 PM, "Stephen Connolly" < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > My concern is that the versions plugin has become a catch-all-grab-bag. > > I want to consolidate its functionality and reduce the number of goals and > options that people need to use it. > > This is adding a new goal. The goal itself does not say anything about > whether there are updates available (and it should not really as the only > update in an ancestor that you can achieve on the pom you are looking at is > the immediate parent. > > I think this might suit better beside dependency:tree or > help:effective-pom where the plugins are not concerned with either > comparing versions of things against the available versions or updating > versions of things. > > > On 22 June 2014 21:22, Mirko Friedenhagen <mfriedenha...@codehaus.org> > wrote: > >> Hello Stephen, >> >> what do you think about adding this? I have already a working >> implementation at >> >> https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/branches/mfriedenhagen/versions-maven-plugin-display-ancestors >> with an IT and would like to merge this back to trunk. >> >> See svn diff >> https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/versions-maven-plugin >> >> https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/branches/mfriedenhagen/versions-maven-plugin-display-ancestors >> for the diff. >> >> Regards >> Mirko >> > >
