...not sure. One thing you might be able to do is to add code to the plugin manager to detect an exception while running a goal, track it back to the plugin which owns the goal, and retrieve the url from the plugin's project.xml. Then, you could decorate the output of the exception with the URL...
just a thought. I might be on crack. -john On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 11:06, Sonnek, Ryan wrote: > I'd be happy to dig into this more with a little direction. Where could > this be found? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:56 AM > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: Re: error message output improvement > > > > I'd give than an enthusiastic +0. :) Love the idea, have no slack time > > to help. > > > > -john > > > > On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 10:41, Sonnek, Ryan wrote: > > > I think it'd be a great idea for each plugin to have a url output so > > when an > > > error occurs, maven can output the error and give the user some > > direction on > > > where to go for help. with more and more plugins moving out of maven- > > core > > > and into the sourceforge project (and other places), it becomes unclear > > > where to go for support. > > > > > > So, just as the dependency downloading tells user's where to go for the > > > artifact they are looking for, the error message should tell them where > > to > > > go for help with their problem. > > > > > > Ex: > > > BUILD FAILED > > > PLUGIN JDEVELOPER ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR. PLEASE SEE http://someurl.com > > FOR > > > MORE INFORMATION > > > File...... file:/C:/Documents and > > > Settings/RyanS/.maven/plugins/maven-jdeveloper > > > -plugin-1.3/plugin.jelly > > > Element... j:forEach > > > Line...... 53 > > > Column.... 72 > > > C:\brown_dev\srcroot\bcs\ear\src\java not found. > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > John Casey > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > CommonJava Open Components Project > > http://www.commonjava.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommonJava Open Components Project http://www.commonjava.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
