gnodet commented on PR #1061: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1061#issuecomment-1489148686
> > But the parent/child relationship has to be done later in the process, so can't be used for early interpolation. > > Interpolation does not really works there anyway so no, but yes it will require a 2 phases processing, guess it is not a big blocker as of today. I'm not to add new properties, really just to get a single functional rootdir one (hopefully merged with multi one but if not at least reliable on any maven compatible projects). My definition enables to use it for checkstyles, headers etc even without a .mvn (whereas it works in a minority of cases - statistically - if not done this way). It can also work when using an aggregator if the pom uses properties to define paths exactly as .mvn case which does not solve this issue since for a project with `root > {child1/.mvn>subchild1,child2/.mvn>subchild2}` it will randomly take child1 or child2 as rootdir. > > Side note: using .mvn also has a nasty side effect, we couldnt use it in nested directories for module specific configuration anymore whereas it can come later if we support lock files, dependency routing or other metadata per module we don't want to put in the pom to keep it readable. It would be a natural location for me. > > Maybe thinking out loud but do we attack the issue by the right side, for configuration location we want to be able to pin absolutely a file (often the root pom), shouldn't we enable it? Main issue is that `${project.xxxx}` is interpolated per pom so maybe we should enable a definition pinning, ie `${project.definition.basedir}` - name is bad but sharing the idea - would stay `/opt/foo` for `/opt/foo/pom.xml` but also its child `/opt/foo/child/pom.xml`? This looks pretty easy to handle in interpolation and drops this `rootdir` need in properties for user/mojo configuration. Can it be an outcome? Imho, we need this definition before parsing any project POM , else use cases such as https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1059 or https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1062 cannot be covered. So I'm not opposed to a different way of pinning, but not from pom files. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org