Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal

2008-05-09 Thread Benjamin Bentmann
Vincent Siveton wrote: Actually, end users could control the output with -Ddetail parameter, so why not the formatting ? Well, alright. Benjamin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

RE: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal

2008-05-09 Thread Brian E. Fox
>BTW I tried help plugin on the javadoc plugin, which is a plugin with >a ton of parameters, and the build takes 2 seconds. IMHO it is a >reasonable time... Good point. If you're itching for stuff to fix, take a look at the 2.0.10 issues list ;-)

Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal

2008-05-09 Thread Vincent Siveton
2008/5/9, Benjamin Bentmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Vincent Siveton wrote: > > > > IIRC the main reason to have toLines() in the generated class is to > > control the ouput, ie getting user configuration like max buffer or > > indentation and providing the specific output. > > > > You mean to suppo

Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal

2008-05-09 Thread Vincent Siveton
Hi again, 2008/5/9, Benjamin Bentmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > The help goal that gets generated by the Maven Plugin Tools 2.4 contains > various internal utility methods (e.g. toLines()) that do some pretty > printing of long descriptions at execution time of the help goal. BTW I tried he

Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal

2008-05-09 Thread Benjamin Bentmann
Vincent Siveton wrote: IIRC the main reason to have toLines() in the generated class is to control the ouput, ie getting user configuration like max buffer or indentation and providing the specific output. You mean to support something like this: mvn foo:help -Dindent=4 -Dmax=120 Do I under

Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal

2008-05-09 Thread Vincent Siveton
Hi Benjamin, 2008/5/9, Benjamin Bentmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > The help goal that gets generated by the Maven Plugin Tools 2.4 contains > various internal utility methods (e.g. toLines()) that do some pretty > printing of long descriptions at execution time of the help goal. > > Any rea

Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal

2008-05-09 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 9-May-08, at 12:10 PM, Benjamin Bentmann wrote: Hi, The help goal that gets generated by the Maven Plugin Tools 2.4 contains various internal utility methods (e.g. toLines()) that do some pretty printing of long descriptions at execution time of the help goal. Any reason why we coul

Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal

2008-05-09 Thread Benjamin Bentmann
Hi, The help goal that gets generated by the Maven Plugin Tools 2.4 contains various internal utility methods (e.g. toLines()) that do some pretty printing of long descriptions at execution time of the help goal. Any reason why we couldn't do all this line breaking and indentation stuff righ