"Vincent Massol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/11/2003 11:26:14 PM:
> Hi dIon, [snip] > This is not my intent. It's simply from my lack of understanding. We'll > fix that and come to an agreement I'm sure. I just need to understand a > bit more. Please be patient with me :-) Sure, I've got lots of time. I'm about to go away for a few days :-) > > Multiproject is supposed to be a collection point for all multiproject > > activity. > > Ok, I'm beginning to understand and I can easily change the > multichanges/dashboard project to use multiproject. However I'm still > unsure what it buys me. As a plugin writer, not a great deal, except less hand coding of reactor tags, which is not too difficult anyway. But we should work together on it to make multiple reactor runs a simple and easy process with very little jelly coding. [snip] > Yes, this is a possibility. I'm not sure what it buys me over using > directly the reactor. I'll repeat what I said in another email. There Consistency. For the end user: one set of properties to describe the set of projects to be iterated over. > are 2 features I believe we need to support multiple projects: > > 1/ ability to run the same goal over several projects > 2/ ability to aggregate reports 3/ The ability to save the reactored projects and re-run a goal across them without reloading via another reactor. > For 1/, yes, there is already the multiproject plugin and the reactor. > Are we saying we want to deprecate the reactor and promote using the > multiproject plugin. Isn't that a bit too "heavy". Unless the > multiproject offers additional features of course (I have to admit I > haven't looked too far in its plugin.jelly). I definitely recommend for people to use multiproject. It means they don't have to edit maven.xml and write reactor tags over and over again. > For 2/, we still need a solution and this where I'm proposing the > multireport plugin (see other mail). As the report taglib is part of the 'site' plugin, multireport:register etc should be part of multiproject IMO. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
