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Maarten Mulders commented on MNG-6869:
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Let's try to wrap up this topic and see if we can find some consensus moving
forward.
As far as I'm concerned:
* This is a helpful feature, as it supports people who want to troubleshoot
why "Maven doesn't work".
* It does not cover all possible cases, and I think that's perfectly fine. It
doesn't have to. It should detect a few common causes for problems that people
encounter with Maven.
* The code has been reviewed and all objections on code level have been
addressed and fixed.
* The functionality cannot be part of a plugin. If it were, users whould have
to download it, but they are having problems with Maven so they can't rely on
that.
* The functionality cannot be an extension. If it were, we cannot assign a CLI
flag ({{--status}}) to something that may or may not be present in the Maven
installation.
So my vote would be to embrace it, and if we find false positives in the
outcomes we could fix them.
WDYT?
> New flag to verify the status
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>
> Key: MNG-6869
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6869
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Robert Scholte
> Assignee: Maarten Mulders
> Priority: Major
>
> While working on INFRA-19861 we had issues with invalid changes in the
> settings.xml.
> This was detected too late. After installation {{mvn --version}} is called,
> but it will only show the version of Maven.
> It would be better to have a flag that verifies it a bit more:
> - can Maven read/write to the local repository
> - can Maven access all predefined repositories? (does the proxy work?)
> This gives a much better feedback if Maven can do its job.
> Current workaround: call something like {{mvn help:evaluate
> -Dexpression=settings.localRepository -q -DforceStdout}}
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