hasn't that been the purpose of profiles.xml files back in 2.x before it was removed for 3.x?
Milos On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Paul Gier <pg...@redhat.com> wrote: > I'd like to discuss the possibility of Maven automatically looking for a > project specific settings.xml file [1]. The main use case for this is > to eliminate, or at least reduce, the need to add repositories to the > poms. A setting.xml file could simply be added into scm into the root > directory of the project. Then it would be checked out when the project > is checked out. > > With multi-module projects, Maven would need to search up the directory > tree to find the settings.xml file, but this could be made relatively > simple by checking the parent dirs until Maven finds: > (1) a settings.xml, (2) a directory with no pom.xml, or (3) the root > directory > > The only problem I can think of in this case would be when small related > projects can be checked out separately (similar to Maven plugins, or > codehaus mojo). The project might not be able to find the settings.xml > if it is not checked out with the project. Although I think this is a > relatively minor issue. > > [1]http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4686 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
