Okay, I have what I need. Thanks to everyone. The most useful advice (for me) was Olivier's pointer at the invoker plugin. I had never needed it and didn't really know about it. Knowing about it, I was able to find its uses in the release plugin, so I can make my use of it more robust.
-K On Jun 26, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Kathryn Huxtable wrote: > Thanks. I am using maven3, but I think the invoker looks simpler. If we were > using Jenkins already I might think differently… -K > > On Jun 26, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: > >> 2012/6/26 Kathryn Huxtable <kath...@kathrynhuxtable.org>: >>> Thanks! >>> >>> I'm also checking out the mojo-executor plugin. It looks kind of >>> squirrelly, but it may do what I want. I'm going to need to run a plugin on >>> the checked out code, so I guess I can't avoid either embedding Maven or >>> forking it. (I think I'll fork.) >> Probably maven-invoker (http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-invoker/) >> library can help you. >> If you use maven3 maybe you can have a look at >> https://github.com/jenkinsci/lib-jenkins-maven-embedder which is "not >> prefect" :-) embedder. >>> >>> Part of me wonders if sticking to shell scripting for this might be easier. >>> >>> -K >>> >>> On Jun 26, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Maybe will be more easy to have a look at the CheckoutMojo ? >>>> >>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/scm/trunk/maven-scm-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/scm/plugin/CheckoutMojo.java >>>> >>>> 2012/6/26 Kathryn Huxtable <kath...@kathrynhuxtable.org>: >>>>> I know the release plugin can do it, but the source is fairly complex. >>>>> >>>>> Is there an easy way? >>>>> >>>>> My goal is to check out an earlier version of the artifact, copy its >>>>> resources (so I'll also be running the copy-resources plugin), which >>>>> produces some data as side effects, and then compare that data to the >>>>> current data. I'm trying to make an incremental updater. >>>>> >>>>> Obviously I can keep the earlier version around, but it would be nice not >>>>> to have to depend on that. >>>>> >>>>> Any advice would be appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> -K >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Olivier Lamy >>>> Talend: http://coders.talend.com >>>> http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Olivier Lamy >> Talend: http://coders.talend.com >> http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
