On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 08:53, Glenn A. McAllister wrote: > On 3 Jun 2002, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Was just chatting with Bob in IRC about supporting Latex within Maven as > > a documentation tool and I know that Cocoon will be an option too so > > does anyone have any thoughts on how to handle this generically. > > > > I know a couple of projects, including drools, that have a lot of Latex > > documentation so it would be good to support (in addition to Latex being > > very cool) and tons of people use Cocoon so I think it would be good to > > support that option as well. > > Supported as a plugin, yes. Part of the core, no.
I think everything is going to be a plugin. I definitely agree keeping the core lean or the 'core' disappearing all together and being replaced by a plugin management system. > I'd like to get a real plugin system working ASAP, and move a large chunk > of these "optional" features of maven into their own plugins project. Certainly. Dion is working on this, and I've been looking a lot at Jelly and I'm keen on integrating Jelly into Maven. I'm sure James will have some thoughts on this. I made a little tag for the POM but I am a Jelly novice, a Jelly baby :-) > For example, the j2ee and struts stuff are just crying out to be placed in > their own project (say jakarta-turbine-maven-plugins (damn these names are > getting long)) and taken out of Maven. We can do that as necessary but for now I think the plugins can live in the main repo. > Supporting alternate documentation > systems other than the Maven "standard" (whatever that happens to be at > the time) also belong in separate plugins. > > Glenn McAllister > SOMA Networks, Inc. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
