Hi .
I'm still new to maven.
A problem which I and other encounter is : Where to get information
about what I can do with maven, wehre to look it up?
My first attempt (most unix users will do)
mvn --help.
Which prints nice information but not:
Which plugins are availible and where to get the description of them..
You can (as I did) ask the mailinglist to get the answer:
mvn help:describe -Dplugin=.. -DFull=true
or
mvn help:describe -DArtifactId=.. -DGroupId=.. -DFull=true
What about adding this command as hint to mvn --help?
=== this is now =======
usage: mvn [options] [<goal(s)>] [<phase(s)>]
Options:
-C,--strict-checksums Fail the build if checksums don't match
-c,--lax-checksums Warn if checksums don't match
-P,--activate-profiles Comma-delimited list of profiles to
activate
-ff,--fail-fast Stop at first failure in reactorized builds
-fae,--fail-at-end Only fail the build afterwards; allow all
non-impacted builds to continue
-B,--batch-mode Run in non-interactive (batch) mode
-fn,--fail-never NEVER fail the build, regardless of project
result
-up,--update-plugins Synonym for cpu
-N,--non-recursive Do not recurse into sub-projects
-npr,--no-plugin-registry Don't use ~/.m2/plugin-registry.xml for
plugin versions
-U,--update-snapshots Update all snapshots regardless of
repository policies
-cpu,--check-plugin-updates Force upToDate check for any relevant
registered plugins
-npu,--no-plugin-updates Suppress upToDate check for any relevant
registered plugins
-D,--define Define a system property
-X,--debug Produce execution debug output
-e,--errors Produce execution error messages
-f,--file Force the use of an alternate POM file.
-h,--help Display help information
-o,--offline Work offline
-r,--reactor Execute goals for project found in the
reactor
-s,--settings Alternate path for the user settings file
-v,--version Display version information
== why not add =======
--show-plugininfo/ [or --show-new-user-info ?]
which prints something like
To get the description of a plugin try
mvn help:describe -DFull=true <plugin> where <plugin> is either
-Dplugin or -DartifactId=maven-pluginname-plugin
-DgroupId=org.apache.maven.plugins
To get a list of plugins goto http://maven.apache.org/plugins/index.html
or have a look at the maven 2 repo directory
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/
... [Wht
This would help any newbe to get started as having plugnis and a build
cycle description is the main feature of maven, isn't it?
Another thing: If you are looking for pom.xml and some description, you
are out of luck. You have to click on Guides->References-> "Project Descriptor".
What do you think?
Greetings
Marc Weber
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