Re: Parent vs dependency aggregation, including sites and reports

2006-02-07 Thread Brett Porter
Ok, this was a bit hard to grasp in mail, so Jason, John and I went through it on IRC a bit. Here are some things we arrived at. I'm being deliberately verbose and breaking it down point by point. This is all just best practice that we want to ensure the plugins can facilitate - I think there a nu

Re: Parent vs dependency aggregation, including sites and reports

2006-02-07 Thread John Casey
I think this is a move in the right direction, in a more general sense. It's time we thought of dependencies in a more abstract way, I think. Rather than talking about them as purely code dependencies, I think it's important to think of them as things that the project needs in order to build, w

RE: Parent vs dependency aggregation, including sites and reports

2006-02-07 Thread Brian E. Fox
me. -Original Message- From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:24 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Parent vs dependency aggregation, including sites and reports Hi folks, This is pretty important to start punting around as I need to lock in a

Re: Parent vs dependency aggregation, including sites and reports

2006-02-06 Thread Carlos Sanchez
I prefer aggregation vs inheritance. What about deploying the sites to the repo as type "site" and then from the aggregated site depend on them and make the aggregated site? On 2/6/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > This is pretty important to start punting around as I ne

Parent vs dependency aggregation, including sites and reports

2006-02-06 Thread Brett Porter
Hi folks, This is pretty important to start punting around as I need to lock in a best practice that works on Maven 2.0 and can be used in the site plug-in release. Please give this a review as soon as possible. I am battling the age old question where we have parent as inheritance and parent as