This is a good point. I think that we can keep it here. The main thing I was interested in is the artifact attachment, but IMO that is something that should be made easier in a later version of Maven.
- Brett jerome lacoste wrote: > On 1/30/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm plenty confused myself. I'd have liked to hear from more people, but >> I think at this point I'll take the proposal to the Maven lists to see >> if I can kick the discussion off a bit more. > > I just have a question, althought I am probably rather late to the > debate: this plugin seems to be rather helpful when you do not > completely follow the maven way of setting up your build. > > Promoting it to apache makes it sound like other ways are more > accepted than before. Although I am all in favor of giving people > tools to solve their issues, I am just wondering if something hasn't > changed there. It's maybe just a feeling... > > Finally, if adding a source or a test-source or attach an artifact > becomes an accepted concept, I tend to wonder why it doesn't become > part of the pom itself. I find strange that one needs to add 20 lines > of XML when the real content is just one line. > > So is there some plan to modify the pom in 2.1 to have these features? > If yes, then -1 to include the plugin on apache. If not, why not? :) > > > With regard to names, do we plan to gather under this plugin other > goals that fit this little border line use cases? If so, what about a > name that integrates this concept? xbuild (x for eXtended)? > > Jerome >
