On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/10/2003 08:47:43 PM: > > > Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 19:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>Is there a reason we're not using the dist plugin for creating > > >>distributions? > > > > > > > > > Our distributions for Maven? I would like to, it just happened that > the > > > first few distributions of Maven were created before the dist plugin > > > came into existence. I'm sure we can and I would like to eat our own > > > dogfood plugin-wise instead of the hand-rolled in maven.xml now. > > > > > > > I became aware of the existence of the dist plugin :-) > > Do dist and release have intended different user targets > > (eg dist for internal maven use and release for general use)? > > No. In fact, the dist plugin was developed before the release plugin.
No, you misunderstand. The first releases of Maven were made before the existence of either the dist or release plugins. I assumed you were talking about Maven itself. I wasn't comparing the release plugin. I was comparing the dist plugin and the release of Maven which has never used the release plugin. > > It would make sense to probably enhance the dist plugin with the > > scm support and make the bin libs layout configurable as in > > the current release plugin. > Yep. > > > And make the release plugin a layer on top of dist plugin to provide > > additional checks and other features. > Sounds good! > -- > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting > Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
