New goal help:help to provide help on how to use helper plugins in maven
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Key: MPH-26
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-26
Project: Maven 2.x Help Plugin
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.0
Reporter: Eirik Maus
It is almost impossible to remember the usage of the helper utility plugins in
maven. Every single time I have problems with transient dependencies I end up
searching google for "maven help plugin" and "maven dependency plugin". That is
not good enough.
The help plugin should have a goal called help, describing the usage of the
plugin. This would make help (or, rather, a bootstrap on how to use the help
system) available under the obvious command "mvn help:help". This goal could
also hint about the existence of the dependency plugin, since many of the
difficult problems when using maven are related to complex transitive
dependencies.
The command "mvn -help" should also describe the use of the maven-help-plugin,
but I will create a separate issue in the maven core module for that.
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