Re: [vote] Allowing Ant-based plugins to use file-based resources

2009-10-07 Thread yoyomohan
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Re: [vote] Allowing Ant-based plugins to use file-based resources

2006-10-10 Thread John Casey
Tentative +1... There should be a metadata XML file that accompanies the build.xml file for the plugin, which allows you to use normal mojo expressions to declare/define parameters to be injected. I think you should be able to use things like ${plugin} to get at the PluginDescriptor, and ${projec

Re: [vote] Allowing Ant-based plugins to use file-based resources

2006-10-09 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 6 Oct 06, at 8:24 PM 6 Oct 06, Kenney Westerhof wrote: +1, and i'm really curious how you would fit that into 10 lines.. ;) After I worked on Plexus Archiver it's now 12 lines :-) Btw, IIRC the current ant plugin tools already unpack the jar to / tmp/someplace so they can specify the lo

Re: [vote] Allowing Ant-based plugins to use file-based resources

2006-10-06 Thread Kenney Westerhof
+1, and i'm really curious how you would fit that into 10 lines.. ;) Btw, IIRC the current ant plugin tools already unpack the jar to /tmp/someplace so they can specify the location to the build.xml in the archive; I seem to remember that you couldn't just present an InputStream or URL to Ant to

RE: [vote] Allowing Ant-based plugins to use file-based resources

2006-10-06 Thread Brian E. Fox
+1 sounds interesting. -Original Message- From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 6:33 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: [vote] Allowing Ant-based plugins to use file-based resources Hi, I chatted with Kenney briefly about allowing ant-based

[vote] Allowing Ant-based plugins to use file-based resources

2006-10-06 Thread Jason van Zyl
Hi, I chatted with Kenney briefly about allowing ant-based plugins to unpack resources from a known location to a known location so they things like shell scripts can be executed. So, in a nutshell I would like to add some capability to unpack the resources in an ant-based plugin JAR to $