[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/09/2003 07:18:18 PM:

> Originally I was looking for the property (which I figured must 
> exist) that represented 'target/distributions'. This was so that I 
> could copy the maven created distribution to somewhere of my choice.
> 
> Thanks to your note below, I've checked the plugin properties. The 
> dist plugin does not declare such a property. However I looked in 
> the plugin.jelly file and found that maven.dist.dir was what I was 
> looking for.

Bad documentation. MAVEN-869 raised.

> But I'm concerned about the scope comment in your reply below. Are 
> you indicating that the maven.dist.dir property is not available for
> use in maven.xml by users?

No. Each plugin has it's own scope. Hence plugins can't (easily) see all 
other plugins variables for dumping.

> (Actually, maven is a lot less scary once you see a plugin.jelly 
> file. Maybe the website documentation should show one of these files
> as a gentler way to move people from ant to maven?)

You mean http://maven.apache.org/reference/user-guide.html#maven.xml isn't 
enough?
--
dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
Blog:      http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/




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