On Wednesday 17 December 2008 Trevor Harmon wrote: > On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Martin Höller wrote: > > Ok. My approach would then be to create one profile which is only > > executed > > before releasing or when running in the contiuous-integration > > server. This > > profile would configure the antrun plugin to execute install4j, run > > integration tests, and do some other time-consuming work. > > Yes, that's what I've been doing, but you said I was doing it wrong.
In your original mail you tried to use profiles like you would use tasks in ant. That's not the maven way and that's what I meant when I was saying you are doing it wrong. I never said using profiles is wrong. > > You say it: it runs all of the _configurations_, but it's still only > > _one_ > > goal that runs. In this case the 'run' goal of the antrun plugin. The > > antrun plugin is kind of special as it runs ant task within maven, > > which > > doesn't have the concept of tasks. > > The exec plugin is like that too, and I find both to be very integral > to the development process. Perhaps these plugins need a new feature > that allows the user to specify which configuration is used. Yes, maybe. However, adding such a feature is quite equivalent to using profiles to select a configuration. And this is how it all started ;-) - martin
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