Hi Stephen,

"Stephen Haberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29/09/2002 11:24:37 
PM:

> Cool; I've had almost the same plugin that I had been meaning to submit,
> and kinda thought I did, but don't remember exactly.
> 
> Two things:
> 
> 1) If a build-torque.xml file is included in the plugin, then the user
> doesn't need any Torque cruft in their source tree, not even the
> build-torque.xml.
> 
> 2) I haven't picked up how post-maven-install plugin installation goes,
> but I was wondering if just having this plugin over in Torque would be
> better as then we could modify the build-torque.xml when needed and
> easily synchronize it with our code base.

The plugin's maven.xml should have goals to install the plugin into maven.

> I thought I picked up from Jim Birchfield that if we have a
> torque-plugin.jar, people could download it from the Torque site, put it
> in maven.home/plugins, maven would auto-extracted it (?), and then have
> use of the torqure:xxx goals.

Even better, someone could put the plugin up on ibiblio.

> Does this sound right? And is the best practice for plugin distribution
> currently/going to be keeping the plugin within the Torque project or
> having everything in maven/that-sf-project?

Within the Torque project makes sense, as does within Maven, if it's of 
general interest. Regardless, having it in the ibiblio repository makes it 
easy for everyone.

We really need a plugin-update/plugin-list goal for maven...

> Thanks,
> Stephen
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