Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Brett Porter
I don't believe the doc covered pre-/post- lifecycle operations, just the @aggregator changes that were the initial discussion. They'd probably need a new proposal. Perhaps something hooking into the model builder listening from the new work on trunk (just taking a wild stab in the dark,

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-15 Thread Stephen Connolly
2008/12/15 Brett Porter br...@apache.org On 12/12/2008, at 6:57 AM, Barrie Treloar wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Brian E. Fox bri...@reply.infinity.nu wrote: I think most of these ideas are already covered in the lifecycle proposal out there that john wrote. Can you paste

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-14 Thread Brett Porter
On 12/12/2008, at 6:57 AM, Barrie Treloar wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Brian E. Fox bri...@reply.infinity.nu wrote: I think most of these ideas are already covered in the lifecycle proposal out there that john wrote. Can you paste the link in please?

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-11 Thread Brett Porter
On 07/12/2008, at 2:06 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote: Yes it's binding the aggregator with @execute to a lifecycle that is the problem. There's nothing wrong with aggregators that are meant to perform some action from the CLI. The trouble is that everyone ends up making two goals, one

RE: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-11 Thread Brian E. Fox
I think most of these ideas are already covered in the lifecycle proposal out there that john wrote. -Original Message- From: Brett Porter [mailto:br...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:02 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-11 Thread Barrie Treloar
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Brian E. Fox bri...@reply.infinity.nu wrote: I think most of these ideas are already covered in the lifecycle proposal out there that john wrote. Can you paste the link in please? - To

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-07 Thread Nick Pellow
being able to bind to the front and back of a lifecycle would be absolutely splendid +1. A simple event system which fired build events to registered listeners (plugins could register these) would go a long way. Example events could be: * Build Started * Phase Started * Goal Started *

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-06 Thread Brian E. Fox
Yes it's binding the aggregator with @execute to a lifecycle that is the problem. There's nothing wrong with aggregators that are meant to perform some action from the CLI. The trouble is that everyone ends up making two goals, one @aggregator and one xxx-only goal that is without the aggregator.

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-06 Thread jallen
being able to bind to the front and back of a lifecycle would be absolutely splendid Brian E Fox wrote: Yes it's binding the aggregator with @execute to a lifecycle that is the problem. There's nothing wrong with aggregators that are meant to perform some action from the CLI. The trouble

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-05 Thread Brian Fox
There's nothing presumptive about the fact that it HAS been deprecated in trunk for quite some time now. (since it was still called 2.1-snap) The aggregator is full of problems and usually leads to recursive builds when you bind it to the lifecycle. A complely new concept is needed to

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-05 Thread Brett Porter
On 06/12/2008, at 9:37 AM, Brian Fox wrote: There's nothing presumptive about the fact that it HAS been deprecated in trunk for quite some time now. (since it was still called 2.1-snap) Ok, you're right, when binding to the lifecycle (which admittedly we are talking about here), though

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-04 Thread Brett Porter
On 04/12/2008, at 12:29 PM, Nick Pellow wrote: Hi, I noticed that the 'aggregator' parameter for a MOJO is slated for deprecation in a future release of Maven. http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/reference/writing-plugins.html#d0e22494 Seems presumptive on the part of the author. It has

Re: What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-04 Thread Nick Pellow
Hi Brett, Hi, I noticed that the 'aggregator' parameter for a MOJO is slated for deprecation in a future release of Maven. http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/reference/writing-plugins.html#d0e22494 Seems presumptive on the part of the author. It has both its usefulness and its

What will replace the @aggregator MOJO configuration?

2008-12-03 Thread Nick Pellow
Hi, I noticed that the 'aggregator' parameter for a MOJO is slated for deprecation in a future release of Maven. http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/reference/writing-plugins.html#d0e22494 What should be used instead, to fulfill the following use-case: - a multi-module project, which would