Re: new plugin proposal: maven-setup-plugin

2008-11-10 Thread Barrie Treloar
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds useful to try. > > There are two things I'd do if you're building this: > - be cautious about letting it get too complicated (trying to be everything > to everyone) > - break the parts out into components that ca

Re: new plugin proposal: maven-setup-plugin

2008-11-10 Thread Brett Porter
This sounds useful to try. There are two things I'd do if you're building this: - be cautious about letting it get too complicated (trying to be everything to everyone) - break the parts out into components that can be reused (eg, IDE integration). These could perhaps be brought back into Mav

new plugin proposal: maven-setup-plugin

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Scholte
When introducing Maven during some projects, I see the same problem every time. They've heard of Maven, but find it a bit too difficult to start with. So I've been thinking of creating an maven-setup-plugin. It should be able write a settings.xml file (although: I'm not able to access userSetting