Something like
mvn -H idea:idea or mvn -H idea
which is akin to what Subversion has, for example.
this would allow the CLI to translate to the appropriate help:describe
goal and then exit, which is pretty clean, as compared to modifying
the lifecycle executor.
- Brett
On 04/02/2008, at 10:13 AM, Vincent Siveton wrote:
Hi Brett,
What do you propose for cmd line switch?
Personally, I am fine with mvn my-plugin:help which seems more common.
A lot of tools (all?) have an help option.
Cheers,
Vincent
2008/2/3, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Would a different lifecycle or command line switch be more intuitive
than this?
On 04/02/2008, at 9:55 AM, Vincent Siveton wrote:
Hi,
I realize that the fix for MPLUGIN-40 (All plugins should by default
have an auto-generated goal 'help') is definitely *not* intuitive
for
the end user.
Background:
I created a plugin-plugin goal which generates an Help mojo. This
generated mojo just displays the goals and their
description/parameters for a given plugin project. Since it is a
goal
inside the maven-plugin-plugin, we need to release it and *all*
plugins to make available this new feature (it could take a
time ;) ).
I proposed another approach: modify the DefaultLifecycleExecutor to
handle this particular goal. So we could call "mvn idea:help" to
display all available idea goals and "mvn idea:toto" will throw an
exception by displaying the help.
Pro: more easy for the end user and works for all plugins
Con: just available in mvn 2.0.9+
WDYT?
Vincent
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