This might seem trivial in comparison, and is most likely orthogonal to this discussion, but what about the concept of applying the same set of plugin configurations to all of the applicable plugins in a build? When we discussed this earlier (informally), I thought this was a central concern to be addressed by toolchain configuration.
Is it instead something that we should be capturing in a separate line on the design wish list? Specifically, I'm talking about the ability to specify source includes/excludes, compiler configurations like -source and -target, and other things to a set of plugins in a build from a single point of control in the POM. -john On 7/17/06, jerome lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/17/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Nathan. This is exactly what I was getting at (and the reasons > for it), but this is a lot more detail than what I wrote down. > > So, just to make sure I understand, it would work something like this: > - JDK definitions are built in, and specify the location of executables, > a particular type of bootclasspath, and anything else that might need to > be referenced. > - a number of JDKs are preconfigured to "implement" those definitions > - the mechanism is extensible so that new JDKs with different layouts > can be added (we can do this in the same way new wagons are added using > Plexus) > - the user would only have to do minimal configuration (a list of > available JDK paths is probably enough, and we can autodiscover these if > not setup, either using JAVA_HOME, PATH or a full path search if we > really wanted to) > > This sounds great. We should probably look into reusing/aligning to what > Eclipse does here if we can, too. > > The only thing to keep in mind is that while I think this is primarily > for Java target environments now, I think the same technique can be used > for other target environments (.NET/Mono, native stuff, etc). > > Cheers, > Brett This is very interesting stuff. Now will this be a part of maven itself, or will it be something slightly external (like scm, lxr, ..)? Jerome --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
