If i have to repeatedly doing the same thing every day.... maven plugin is a way to go since I can run it any where i like as long as maven installed and point to our central maven repo.
-D On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
