Actually I was talking about specifying other plugin/dependency plugins to be enforced but I see your point. How would we make it not possible to override in a child? Using a static value to store previously entered config?
-----Original Message----- From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:37 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Control of maven using prerequisites On 14 Feb 07, at 10:28 PM 14 Feb 07, Brian E. Fox wrote: > So the initial feature list for the "maven-enforcer-plugin" is: > OS, Maven Rev, Jdk Rev. Anything else that might be usefull from a > Configuration Management standpoint? Most other things can already be > controlled via pluginManagement/dependencyManagement...although it > doesn't stop someone from overriding at a local pom level. > Maybe this is a new flavor of plugin that can't be reconfigured or have any other configurations merged. Not sure if you could categorically state you want X, Y, and Z for your entire system but programmatically we could effectively make it impossible to change. Jason. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:56 PM > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: Control of maven using prerequisites > > > On 14 Feb 07, at 8:42 PM 14 Feb 07, Brian E. Fox wrote: > >> Now that 2.0.5 is out and more frequent releases are expected, I >> think >> that http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2423 is even more important. >> Currently the prerequisites value is not inherited and thus we >> can't use >> it in a company "super-pom" to enforce a minimum Maven version. My >> workaround is to create an empty plugin that has a prereq and include >> that in the super-pom. This seems kludgey an kind of unnecessary >> since >> there is a field in the pom to do this...it just only applies if >> defined >> in each child pom or when building from a reactor that contains >> it. Is >> there any chance this can get bumped to 2.0.6? I'm willing to try and >> submit a patch I could get a pointer where to look. >> > > The prereq is specifically for plugins, or other tools, that need a > specific version of Maven. It was not meant as a means of enforcement > for your development environment. Trying to mix these concerns would > cause problems. > > I think what you need is a plugin that runs in the validate phase > (call it the Enforcer Plugins :-) that checks things like jdk > version, mvn version, operating system or whatever else you might > want. Configure this in your parent POM and then you're all set. > > Jason. > >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Brian >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
