I added a proposal for some profile activation/deactivation improvements here:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Improvements+to+Profile+Activation+Deactivation
Please take a look and add comments if you are interested.
Thanks!
Paul Gier wrote:
I would like to bring up a couple of issues related to profile
activation and deactivation. While working on MNG-3545 I noticed some
cases where the current behaviour might be improved.
1. What is the correct behaviour when there is more than one
activeByDefault profile and I manually activate one of them? Currently,
if I have two activeByDefault profiles, profile1 and profile2, and I run
"mvn -P+profile1" then profile1 stays active and profile2 is
deactivated. This also bring up the following more general question.
2. Should default profiles be automatically deactivated if another
profile is activated? I don't think the current behaviour should be
changed in 2.0.x, but for 2.1 I think it's worth considering leaving
default profiles active unless explicitly disabled.
If you think of profiles as being mutually exclusive, then it makes
sense to activate one and have the default profile be deactivated. But
IMO that seems to be a less common use case vs. using profiles to
activate particular parts of a build and not normally interfering with
each other. In this case it seems more intuitive that an
activeByDefault profile is always active unless deactivated. In
addition, now that profiles can be deactivated as needed from the
command line, there doesn't seem to be as much of a need to have
activeByDefault profiles automatically turn off.
3. There was a suggestion to allow the use of "!" to disable a profile.
So the command line would look like: mvn -P!myProfile
This seems more intuitive than the current syntax using a dash, and I
created MNG-3571 for it. But I'm hesitant to add it since we can
already use "-" for this, and it looks like "mvn -P D:myProfile" was
added as another option for disabling a profile in 2.1.
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