Christopher Tubbs created MINVOKER-190:
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Summary: build.log file location causes problems
Key: MINVOKER-190
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINVOKER-190
Project: Maven Invoker Plugin
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
The {{build.log}} file is quite annoying because it is placed in the invoked
project's source tree by default. It is not configurable, except to disable it
entirely with the {{noLog}} option.
This causes issues, such as what is identified in RAT-160, where certain
plugins behave in unexpectedly bad ways when it appears in the invoked
project's root.
Ideally, I'd love for the {{build.log}} file to be created outside of the
invoked project's source tree entirely. The most sensible, I think, is in the
invoking project's target/ directory, named uniquely for that invocation.
Another option is in the invoked project's target directory (which may not
otherwise exist, so this may not be suitable). A third option is to make the
location completely configurable, and leave it up to the user to decide where
it goes.
The important thing to remember is that not every plugin on an executed project
can be configured to ignore this file, so it definitely shouldn't be created in
the invoked project's root by default when there isn't an option to put it
elsewhere.
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