Re: Documentation of relevant goals in POM?

[Trygve Laugst�l]

How do you recon maven can know about the relevant goals?

If a <type> tag is added to the POM it could make things easier to guess
the right goal. For bigger projects I usually have a goal called
'help' which is the default goal.
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Trygve
On Sun, 9 May 2004 10:04:34 +0200, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

Hi,

What Thomas is asking is for a project "goalmap". For example a person
who wants to build this maven project would just type "maven -G" and it
would only list the goals that make sense for this project.
I think the idea is interesting and several persons I've talked to at
TSSS2004 have raised this issue of being a bit lost about what goal they
should call to build such project.
Thoughts?

Thanks
-Vincent
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Christensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 May 2004 23:54
To: 'Maven Users List'
Subject: Documentation of relevant goals in POM?
Hi all

I had a chat with Vincent Massol yesterday at the server side
symposium
about documenting relevant goals in the project.xml. The aim here is
to
make ant like integration with IDE's and making it easier to find out
what goals are relevant for a project. I personally find it a problem
that when I checkout a module I need to find tips on build in readme
files in various places.
The goals could be put in maven.xml and you could use the description
on
these to make them more accessible but maven.xml should not be
required
on all projects - that would be going back to ant in my opinion..

In a current project I can use a database maven plugin to build the
database and jboss plugin to launch this app in the container. But I
don't want this to happen as the default goal which just builds the
application as an ear. A new developer would have to read the
how-to-build file in order to find out what goals can be used. F.ex.
the
war goal doesn't  make sense in this context but ear does.

Any thoughts on this?

Thomas

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