Another option would be to submit patches to the assembly plugin. Looking at the source for the assembly plugin I realize this is pretty complicated. At a minimum we would probably want to extend their plugin (as opposed to redoing a lot of the same functionality.)
Sean On 1/19/06, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got the assembly stuff working but there are a few issues. > > 1.) The tarballs include transitive dependencies (like commons-lang). > We don't want to ship those with our nightly or official releases > > 2.) Maven assembly doesn't really allow you to easily create both > source and bin tarballs. > > 3.) Maven assembly is cumbersome. > > 4.) Bruno has reminded me that the @lastmodified@ issue will not be > handled using this process > > So I propose we consider writing our own maven plugin to build our > tarballs. I know very little about maven and even less about writing > a plugin (zero) but I'm willing to get up to speed if someone more > knowledgeable can help. > > Is this a crazy idea or something worth doing? Maybe Wendy will be > interested in helping since she handles this type of thing for Struts > (which will eventually need something like this.) > > Sean >
