On 27/07/2012, at 12:45 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > poms have an implicit basedir, so copying the pom to target would change > the implicit basedir. > > pom packaging can be hijacked when you want to attach a primary artifact > without defining a custom packaging. > > Not saying these are good reasons, but they are a sort of reason! > > There may be others >
Another was that because every project has a POM, you risk double handling it if you also make it the artifact. Didn't want a bunch of special handling in plugins for that. - Brett -- Brett Porter br...@apache.org http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter http://twitter.com/brettporter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
