The idea sounds fine. Changing the semantics of existing functionality is not a good idea. If you can implement it such that it is purely additive, and orthogonal, to existing functionality it's much easier to evaluate. Changing how the switch might work for those using it currently is not desirable and may potentially affect people adversely. Just pick another switch name for now and that should suffice.
On Apr 27, 2012, at 4:34 AM, Vincent Latombe wrote: > Hello, > > I would be very interested to have [1] implemented. Our use case is to > compile a subpart of our aggregator + all associated dependencies. The > current behaviour requires us to provide *all* individual modules, which > defeats the purpose of aggregators. > > I've made a patch proposal a while ago [2] but got so far no feedback > (positive or negative). I know that you don't monitor pull requests on GH > for Maven, but since in my company we start having serious needs for this, > I'd like to take the necessary steps for this to be integrated. I'm > guessing some ITs will be required, but I just want to know if the change > sounds like a reasonable one (given that is changing a bit the semantic of > the '-pl' option). > > Thanks for your feedback, > > Vincent > > [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4637 > [2] https://github.com/apache/maven-3/pull/2 Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- Simplex sigillum veri. (Simplicity is the seal of truth.)
