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.
> 
> 
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