Garret Wilson created MASSEMBLY-992: ---------------------------------------
Summary: Facility to define assembly descriptor in body of POM Key: MASSEMBLY-992 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MASSEMBLY-992 Project: Maven Assembly Plugin Issue Type: New Feature Reporter: Garret Wilson The Maven Assembly Plugin allows custom descriptors to be defined, but only in an external file. Please add the capability to define the descriptor in the body of the POM itself. Requiring a separate descriptor file makes it almost impossible to declare an assembly in a parent POM so that it can be inherited by child POMs. The documentation describe a way to [share descriptors|https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/examples/sharing-descriptors.html], but it is complex and doesn't obviously support Maven property interpolation. Without this facility, in order to easily inherit an assembly from a parent POM, I'm currently resorting to workaround involving AntRun to generate an assembly descriptor on the fly. See [this {{pom.xml}}|https://github.com/globalmentor/globalmentor-root/blob/main/pom.xml]. It's pretty convoluted and tedious to get right: {code:xml} <target> <echo file="${assemblyDirectory}/bin.xml" encoding="UTF-8"> <![CDATA[<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-2.0.0.xsd"> <id>bin</id> <formats> <format>tar.xz</format> <format>zip</format> </formats> <fileSets> <fileSet> <directory>${project.build.directory}</directory> <includes> <include>*-exe.jar</include> </includes> <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory> </fileSet> <fileSet> <directory>${binOutputDirectory}</directory> <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory> <!-- … --> <fileMode>0775</fileMode> </fileSet> </fileSets> </assembly>]]> </echo> </target> {code} This was requested and finally implemented for Versions Maven Plugin; see [#258|https://github.com/mojohaus/versions/issues/258] and [#685|https://github.com/mojohaus/versions/issues/684], along with [_Versions Maven Plugin rules that are inheritable_|https://stackoverflow.com/q/72416739] on Stack Overflow. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)