Anders Hammar wrote:
> 
> I don't know. If i recall correctly, the help:describe mojo by default
> works
> on the latest version of the plugin being described, when  I use it with
> Maven-3.0-beta1. I could be wrong, but that's how I recall tings. So, I
> always specify the version [1] when I use help:describe. That way I have
> full control of what version of the plugin that will be described. This is
> important I think, as there are differences between version of a plugin
> and
> I want to be sure to get the info of the version I'm working with.
> 
> /Anders
> 
> 

I switched from 2.0.8 to 3.0-BETA1 and it used 2.2 again (I have 2.2 and 2.3
in my local repo).  So the behavior is consistent with 2.0 and 3.0...

C:\>mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0-beta-1 (r935667; 2010-04-19 10:00:39-0700)
Java version: 1.5.0_22
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_22\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows xp" version: "5.1" arch: "x86" Family: "windows"
C:\>mvn help:describe -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.plugins
-DartifactId=maven-inst
all-plugin -Dmedium=true
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-help-plugin:2.0.2:describe (default-cli) @ standalone-pom
---
Downloading:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/doxia/doxia-sink-api/1.0-alpha-4/doxi
a-sink-api-1.0-alpha-4.jar
Downloading:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wagon/wagon-file/1.0
-alpha-5/wagon-file-1.0-alpha-5.jar
Downloading:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/reporting/maven-repo
rting-api/2.0/maven-reporting-api-2.0.jar
Downloading:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wagon/wagon-http-lig
htweight/1.0-alpha-5/wagon-http-lightweight-1.0-alpha-5.jar
Downloaded:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wagon/wagon-http-ligh
tweight/1.0-alpha-5/wagon-http-lightweight-1.0-alpha-5.jar (8 KB at 26.6
KB/sec)

Downloaded:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/doxia/doxia-sink-api/1.0-alpha-4/doxia
-sink-api-1.0-alpha-4.jar (5 KB at 3.3 KB/sec)
Downloaded:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/wagon/wagon-file/1.0-
alpha-5/wagon-file-1.0-alpha-5.jar (6 KB at 2.5 KB/sec)
Downloaded:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/reporting/maven-repor
ting-api/2.0/maven-reporting-api-2.0.jar (7 KB at 2.0 KB/sec)
[INFO] Plugin: 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.2'
-----------------------------------------------
Group Id:  org.apache.maven.plugins
Artifact Id: maven-install-plugin
Version:     2.2
Goal Prefix: install
Description:

Maven Plugins

Mojos:

Goal: 'install-file'
Description:
Installs a file in local repository.

Goal: 'install'
Description:
Installs project's main artifact in local repository.

[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.875s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Jul 07 10:01:56 PDT 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 3M/6M
[INFO]
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