> Sonatype do some black magic for provision developer desktops, check > their website. > There was a demo I saw that pulled down your Eclipse binaries and > installing plugins and did some configuration stuff. > I believe that the bundling of the artifacts for provisioning live in > Nexus - not sure if its a p2 or maven repository.
You're referring to their Onboarding solution that they've turned open source: https://github.com/sonatype/onboarding This is for materializing (and update) an Eclipse IDE installation. It pulls artifacts from a P2 repository in Nexus. /Anders > > As the other thread "Is Maven the Answer" says you may be better off > with a pure scripting language or Ant if you want to do non > build-lifecycle event handling. > > Getting Maven to do what you are suggesting is not going to be simply > a matter of hooking assembly plugin together with some dependencies. > You are probably going to have to develop a plugin - at which point > you have to wonder whether it fits into the idea of Maven's lifecycle > (and I suggest not). > > If you are running on Windows tools like SCCM do the installation > management for you. > Is it worth rolling your own? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
