The original email sounds like a bug report or rather enhancement request. Those things should be filed in the Maven JIRA.
And I agree that this is not currently available, but might be a nice thing to add. So I'd file this as an Improvement in JIRA against the help plugin, and perhaps they can add it. Wayne On 3/21/08, Paul Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis, > I have, and do, use this command, but it does not add the version number > to the plugin when no version for the plugin exist in the POM. Also, > when a plugin is not defined in the POM, it is not listed. > > Paul Spencer > > Dennis Lundberg wrote: > > I find this command helpful: > > > > mvn help:effective-pom > > > > It prints the entire pom of your artifact, after inheritance and > > interpolation has been applied. > > > > Paul Spencer wrote: > >> I would like to get an inventory of plugins used by my POM for the > >> purpose of explicitly setting their version in my POM. This will make > >> builds much more reliable. The help:describe can do this for one > >> plugin at a time, but this is tedious and make the incorrect > >> assumption I know all of the plugins used. > >> > >> A command like the following would produce a list of plugins, > >> including the GroupId, ArtifactId, and version used by a specific goal. > >> mvn help:describe -Dgoal=test > >> > >> Going a step further, adding a -DupdatePom=true to actually add the > >> plugin information to the POM wound make the process much easier. > >> > >> Paul Spencer > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
