Re: archiver-maven-plugin?

2006-01-03 Thread Brett Porter
OK, let me see what I can do!! http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-40 :) - Brett - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

archiver-maven-plugin?

2006-01-02 Thread dan tran
Hi every one, I would like introduce archiver-maven-plugin. It is a cut down version of maven-assembly-plugin with the following functionalities. 1. Smaller feature scope - compression/archiving only 2. Descriptor's objects are exposed through plugin's configuration. This way, we

Re: archiver-maven-plugin?

2006-01-02 Thread Brett Porter
dan tran wrote: 2. Descriptor's objects are exposed through plugin's configuration. This way, we can take advantage of expression processing provided by the POM. I think we need to introduce this to the assembly plugin anyway. I am still struggling to decide if spinning this plugin

Re: archiver-maven-plugin?

2006-01-02 Thread dan tran
if the assembly plugin is able to do this? I don't quite see the reasoning. I think most user need is the capablity to assembly files and dendencies together. This is exactly archiver-maven-plugin provides ( exception the dependencies ). The maven-assembly-plugin has a rich set of features that I

Re: archiver-maven-plugin?

2006-01-02 Thread Brett Porter
anyway. Sound good, is it thru a seperate mojo? No, I think the existing mojo needs to interpolate the descriptor. I think most user need is the capablity to assembly files and dendencies together. This is exactly archiver-maven-plugin provides ( exception the dependencies ). The maven

Re: archiver-maven-plugin?

2006-01-02 Thread dan tran
together. This is exactly archiver-maven-plugin provides ( exception the dependencies ). The maven-assembly-plugin has a rich set of features that I think It will take for ever to release. I still don't understand. The assembly plugin is already released! :) Do you mean the wait

Re: archiver-maven-plugin?

2006-01-02 Thread Jason van Zyl
dan tran wrote: I still don't understand. The assembly plugin is already released! :) Do you mean the wait for the 2.1 release? It has been 2 and half months. ;-) Is it time a for a new release? Any how, I agree that It does not look right when there are 2 similar plugins. Agreed, I

Re: archiver-maven-plugin?

2006-01-02 Thread dan tran
, January 02, 2006 6:28 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: archiver-maven-plugin? On 1/2/06, Brett Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dan tran wrote: On 1/2/06, Brett Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dan tran wrote: 2. Descriptor's objects are exposed through plugin's configuration