Do not fail on missing descriptors
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Key: MASSEMBLY-278
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-278
Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-1
Reporter: Sejal Patel
Assembly requires too much boilerplate right now to be used in a reactor based
project because of the way it fails out if no descriptors are found. I suggest
adding a boolean parameter (probably ignoreMissingDescriptors) which can
default to false for backwards compatability but when set to true, does nothing
if no descriptors are found.
Then in org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader line 131 add
the check for that new parameter so that it only fails out if it was configured
to fail out. Otherwise it just goes about its business of assembly nothing
(which seems like a perfectly reasonable logic as well).
By doing these things, it makes it possible to configure the assembly plugin 1
time in a parent pom and then not have to configure it in several (in my case
11 out of 19) different modules again and again.
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