A fair point.  I had purely thought of what he was expecting "out of the
box".  What you describe is certainly achieveable and possibly quite
desirable the more I think about it. 

Cheers,
Martin.


----- Original message -----
From: "Craig McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Maven Users List" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:46:26 -0800
Subject: Re: Is maven the right tool?

On 12/20/06, Martin Gilday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It doesn't sound like Maven is really what you are looking for from your
> description. Its repository does do some of those things but I think you
> require a much more generic file management system.


Even if Maven does not do this sort of thing out of the box, it seems
reasonable to think about building an environment-specific plugin that
could
do it.  Checking for missing or excess files is similar in spirit to
using a
plugin to statically analyze your source code (like the CPD, Checkstyle,
or
FindBugs), or a different plugin to run tests and analyze code coverage
(like Surefire and Cobertura).  That way, you could benefit from all the
standard features of Maven and extend it to support the extra things
that
only you might need.

Craig

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