Hi, 2008/2/3, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think keeping this out of the core, be that the lifecycle executor > or the CLI would be a far better option.
Agree for CLI. > Vincent, just to be clear you have taken the logic that already exists > in the help plugin? More wrapped logic from PluginXdocGenerator. Cheers, Vincent > On 3-Feb-08, at 3:17 PM, Brett Porter wrote: > > > 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 > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> 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] > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > jason at sonatype dot com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
