Hi all, I have been working on a refactored version of the assembly plugin over the past couple months. You can access the latest snapshot of the plugin from the snapshot repository on ASF. What I'm currently grappling with is the need to make this new version backward compatible. I've done some work on diff'ing the component and descriptor model files, to ensure that no XML elements have been deleted, and that all existing XML is supported in code. However, for behavioral things (like exclusion of **/.svn/** by default), I'm coming up short on information.
If anyone has time, it would be very helpful to test this new assembly plugin version against your own assemblies. If it breaks, please file a jira, and if you can attach the failing assembly descriptor/project, that would be most helpful as well. Hopefully, we're nearing a release date on this plugin. Once I'm reasonably sure about backward compatibility, update the docs to reflect new features, and releaes the dependency components that have changes, I'll call a vote. Thanks! -john
