I've always found it to be a hassle to test plugins that don't need to be
wired up in POM files, e.g. the archetype, dependency, scm plugins. I
find that to test them I have to create a dummy POM file with a
<pluginRepositories> section, as described in our guide to testing staged
releases.
http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-releases.html
I thought it would be cool to have a downloader plugin that let you do
this:
mvn downloader:get
-Dartifact=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1
-DrepoUrl=http://people.apache.org/~olamy/staging-repo
That would retrieve the plugin into your local repository, so you could
immediately start using it.
mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1:checkin -Dmessage=foo
I've created a prototype downloader plugin and checked it into the
sandbox; I used it to test the Maven SCM 1.1 release. It was pretty nice.
Does this seem like something worth releasing and documenting as part of
our release testing guide?
-Dan
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