On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:33:30PM +0100, Eric Pugh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can we add maven.gen.src=${maven.build.dest}/generated-sources?
Where would you like to add this?
Which plugins would be affected/need up be updated.
>
> I've been doing a bunch of work with the Hibernate, Xdoclet, and Eclipse
> plugins for a client. One of the challenges we had was getting source code
> generated via the Xdoclet and Hibernate plugins to play nice w/ a normal
> Maven build as well as using it within Eclipse. Eclipse is their primary
> environment for their developers, so Maven had to play nice with Eclipse.
>
> The biggest challenge was getting various generated code bits into the
> /target directory. When we put files in /target/classes and then ran builds
> in Eclipse the /target/classes directory would be completely cleaned, and
> wiped out the generated code that was needed.
>
> After chatting with JvZ, I added to the Eclipse plugin the ability to add as
> seperate source directories anything in ${maven.gen.src}. So, after
> generating hibernate mapping files and a ddl I would have:
> /target/generated-sources/xdoclet
> /target/generated-sources/schema
>
> and they would each be a source folder in Eclipse. Works great. However,
> because maven.gen.src is defined in the Eclipse plugin only, you have to
> specify for the hibernate and xdoclet plugins the full path to generate
> source into. It would be much simpler if maven.gen.src worked the same way
> that maven.build.dest and other properties like that work.
>
> Eric
>
As dIon said I don't think we should make changes like this before 1.0 but
I'm +1 for this after a Maven 1.0 release.
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Trygve
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