> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 September 2003 15:01 > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: Core plugins? > > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 03:44, Vincent Massol wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Brett mentioned in a an earlier email today that the idea of RC1 would > > be a maven core containing core plugins and other plugins which would > > not be part of the main maven distribution. > > > > What I don't understand is the concept of "code plugins". For me a > > plugin is a plugin and they should all be treated equal. > > > > What is the rationale behind hosting core plugins in the maven core? > > Being required for the bootstrap is one criterion,
The bootstrap is done with Ant AFAIK. It could contain the Plugin Manager and thus the code to download plugins. Anyway, the bootstrap already retrieves the needed jars from the remote repo. Why couldn't it also retrieve plugin jars? > the other is the core > reports that people expect. The reports we could eventually off load by > themselves but for now I'm happy keeping the standard reports in the > core for now. I think we're mixing 2 things here: - what plugins and reports people are used to use - where the plugins are located What we seem to need is a way to prevent folks having to enter 20 plugin dependencies in all their project.xml. These are the "core plugin". But these plugins do not have to be located in Maven nor do they need to be distributed with Maven. What we need is a default project.xml that is automatically inherited by all projects. In this default project.xml, we would list: - the core plugins - the core reports But again, I don't see why we need to host any plugin within maven core. What would be nice is to let people add plugin they use daily to this default project.xml so that they can benefit from them being automatically added to all their projects. Comments? Thanks -Vincent [snip] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
