[assembly plugin] improve or clarify inheriting/reusing descriptors
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Key: MNG-2189
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2189
Project: Maven 2
Type: Improvement
Components: Plugin Requests
Versions: 2.0.3, 2.0.2
Reporter: Jacob Robertson
I want to declare a new reusable assembly descriptor. Then, in my parent pom I
can reference that descriptor, and all children projects will be able to do
assembly:assembly without specifying the descriptor. This actually works
halfway, but then the assembly plugin can't find the descriptor - because it
doesn't live inside of the child project. I was trying to play around with
putting the descriptor in the parent project, but since the packaging has to be
"pom" that of course wouldn't work.
Unless I misunderstand, the way this currently works, I'd have to declare the
descriptor for each and every child project. Which would be very unfortunate,
since the 3 supplied predefined descriptors don't meet my needs.
If there is a way to do this, then the improvement request is to improve the
documentation for this since I couldn't figure it out...
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