On 4 Dec 2006, at 16:51, Jason van Zyl wrote:
On 4 Dec 06, at 9:59 AM 4 Dec 06, Ralph Goers wrote:
Richard,
I love this idea and hate it at the same time. The idea of using
numbers, as I'm sure has been pointed out before, just seems
awful. But I understand what you are driving at. If there was a
way to register named phases with the numbers that would be better.
OTOH, wouldn't it be better just to allow the list of phases to be
specified in settings.xml?
Ralph
You can always make your own lifecycle, which is not that hard if
you really need it.
Am I correct in assuming that you are refering to what, e.g., the
release plugin does?
We will only expand the lifecycle as the need requires. It will
never become a mess of spaghetti like Maven 1.x. To allow free form
to accommodate the ever shrinking number of cases we can't handle
is just not worth it. The standard lifecycle then disappears and
Maven becomes a very hard to explain. It one of the fundamental
differences between Maven and everything else and though we run up
against some limitations it is one of Maven's most powerful
attributes.
Jason.
Richard van der Hoff wrote:
Brett Porter wrote:
Actually, before we jump into this, let's consider the use case
at hand. While easily solved by pre-package at this point, we
may find other needs.
To take these suggestions even further, perhaps the idea of a
fixed set of phases is too limiting. An alternative would be to
number phases, from (say) 0 to 1000, with the current named
phases as aliases for 100, 200, etc. Then it's easy for plugins
which need it to slip in an extra phase.
I've lost count of the number of times I've told people on #maven
that there is no way to ensure that a particular execution runs
between phases X and Y. Admittedly, there's a bug which means
that execution order isn't preserved within a phase, and fixing
that would ameliorate this.
Anyway, I'm fully expected to be shouted down, and told that this
will only lead to confusion; however, I think it's worth
considering.
Cheers,
Richard
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