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Marcello Teodori commented on MPLUGIN-40:
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I'm using the 2.4-SNAPSHOT version from the snapshot plugin repo at:
http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository/
but I cannot understand how to use it, I am trying for example:
mvn surefire:help
or
mvn surefire:helpmojo
expecting some output along the lines of:
mvn help:describe -Dplugin=surefire -Dfull
Anyway I think that a property trigger for this feature would make much more
sense. It should be possible to activate it in the general settings.xml instead
of modifying each and every pom.xml for something that is more about the build
system than it is specific to the project.
I would also really love the help output to be much more human-friendly than
the one produced by the help plugin...
> All plugins should by default have an auto-generated goal 'help'
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> Key: MPLUGIN-40
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPLUGIN-40
> Project: Maven 2.x Plugin Tools
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Reporter: Eirik Maus
> Assignee: Vincent Siveton
> Fix For: 2.4
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> All plugins should have a goal called "help" providing help on how to use the
> plugin. This should be auto-generated if it doesn't already exist as a goal
> in the mojo. The autogenerated help should typically list the goals (and
> settable properties) of the plugin, and probably also print out the url to
> the plugin's website (if available). This will most likely affect the plugin
> archetype as well, I guess.
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