Hi Igor, Thanks for sharing the rationale with me. I had a quick look and I can see why the decision has been made. As long as there is convenient alternative for the missing features I'm fine.
Cheers, Tomasz On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Igor Fedorenko <[email protected]> wrote: > As it was mentioned already, it should be possible to reintroduce > dropped pom editor tabs via thirdparty extensions. If such extensions > prove to be popular and of good quality we will certainly consider > accepting them back to m2e core, provided extension's developers will be > willing to support them. > > Running Maven build phases as part of project import/configuration/build > is not coming back (see [1] for reasons why). At the same time, we > believe that the new build lifecycle mapping framework we introduce in > 1.0 provides much better alternative and we expect Maven plugin coverage > improve as more m2e extensions are contributed to m2e marketplace > catalog. Community participation is the key here, so if you are > interested to help with JAXB POJOs or any other code generation plugin > support, [2] provides initial pointers and we'll be happy to answer > further questions on m2e-dev mailing list. > > [1] > http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_**plugin_execution_not_covered<http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_plugin_execution_not_covered> > [2] > http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_**Extension_Development<http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_Extension_Development> > > -- > Regards, > Igor > > > On 11-07-08 6:56 PM, Tomasz Blachowicz wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I've been using M2Eclipse feature with my Eclipse IDE for last year or >> so on daily basis and I always were very happy with the tool. Today I >> decided to upgrade to Indigo bundle and new m2e feature and I must say >> I'm disappointed, because many of the useful features of M2Eclipse 0.12 >> (last of releases managed by Sonatype) has been dropped in m2e 1.0 >> release. Igor Fedorenko in his e-mail today has kindly mentioned that >> some tabs and features has been removed and the team has decided to >> concentrate on other useful features. I don't really agree this was good >> idea and there is certainly a good few features that I'll be missing: >> >> * The plug-in tab with search for plugins (How many of you actually >> remember the full name of jaxb plugin and it's latest version?) and >> really great support for custom plugin configuration. That was great >> simplification for me and I believe other users working with complex pom >> files. >> >> * New dependency tab is not great. In the M2Eclipse 0.12 one could got >> to editing of the artifact details in the right pane just by clicking on >> the artifact on the list. Now the new pop-up window appears to do the >> same. >> >> * The graphical representation of dependencies was nice feature. Maybe >> not for large projects, but still quite useful. I'll be missing this >> feature. >> >> * In M2Eclipse 0.12 there was possibility to run specific goals on >> project import and project configuration update. I found this very, very >> useful when working with projects that generate code. By calling goals >> automatically I stayed assure that all my generated classes (e.g. JAXB >> POJOs) are up-to-date and the project compiles fine just after import. >> >> I'd like to highlight that I really appreciate the hard work you guys >> doing there and I'm really happy that Maven integration has become >> top-level project in Eclipse finally. However dropping features/plugins >> that advanced users like myself have been using extensively is not the >> best idea in my view. Is there any chance to bring the dropped features >> back to m2e? >> >> Regards, >> Tomasz Blachowicz >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> m2e-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/m2e-users<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > m2e-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/m2e-users<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users> >
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