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Petar Tahchiev commented on MASSEMBLY-115: ------------------------------------------ All of the plexus archivers implement the Archiver interface, which has the setForce method defined. We simply call the delegate.setForced(forced); method on the delegate Archiver interface object. I think update functionality should work for all the archivers, since they implement the setForce method. And if it doesn't work for any of those then it should be a problem of the given archiver. And in this case we will fallback and support only forced (non-update) creation of archives for that archiver. > Should avoid modifying assembly if none of the underlying files have changed. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-115 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-115 > Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: David Boden > Assignee: Petar Tahchiev > Fix For: 2.3-beta-1 > > Attachments: massembly-115.patch > > > At the moment, the assembly plugin always generates a the specified bundle, > no matter whether or not the files to be placed in the bundle are changed. > This means that any plugins downstream (e.g. you want to digitally sign the > bundle) behave as if a "clean" has taken place. > It would be better if the assembly plugin did not build a bundle if it is > going to be the same as what was produced during the last build. That way, > the last modified timestamp of the bundle won't get updated, and the > downstream plugins will know that nothing has changed. > Adding an assembly to a build currently slows down the iterative "install" > build very significantly because of this issue. Clean builds are not effected > by this issue, but effectively the assembly is forcing a clean build every > time. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira