Improve error message when trying to execute moojo with no pom.xml
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Key: MNG-3779
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3779
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Errors, Logging
Affects Versions: 2.1.0-M1, 2.0.9
Reporter: Samuel Le Berrigaud
I've seen many users on the mailing lists or in my company who get this error
message:
bq. Cannot execute mojo: resources. It requires a project with an existing
pom.xml, but the build is not using one.
Most often than not they do not understand what the cause of the problem is.
Most often that not this is simply because they are 1 directory up or down
relatively to the directory that contains the pom.xml of the project they want
to build.
I suggest that the error message should be updated to something like:
bq. Cannot execute mojo "bla". Maven was executed in directory "foo" and it
doesn't contain a {{pom.xml}}
Moreover, maven should look 1 directory up and 1 directory down from the
{{basedir}} for {{pom.xml}} files. And if one is detected suggest the user to
move to that directory.
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