This sounds useful to try.
There are two things I'd do if you're building this:
- be cautious about letting it get too complicated (trying to be
everything to everyone)
- break the parts out into components that can be reused (eg, IDE
integration). These could perhaps be brought back into Maven at some
point if we need settings file management beyond what is already there.
Cheers,
Brett
On 09/11/2008, at 9:52 AM, Robert Scholte wrote:
When introducing Maven during some projects, I see the same problem
every time.
They've heard of Maven, but find it a bit too difficult to start with.
So I've been thinking of creating an maven-setup-plugin.
It should be able write a settings.xml file (although: I'm not able
to access userSettingsFile or globalSettingsFile of the
DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder or any plexusproperties, where these
files are defined)
You can use the Prompter to ask some questions.
You could create some templates to prefill your settings.xml, i.e.
the required Nexus-config for your company.
If you can detect if 'mvn' is running for the first time, you could
ask for setting up maven.
There are several ways to access such file:
- Add a /conf/setup.xml file to your maven-package before
distributing it within your company.
- Publish a setup-file. You can prompt for it, or run 'mvn setup -
Dfile=http://somedomain/setup.xml'
Using maven shouldn't be more than unpacking the distribution,
setting M2_HOME and path-variable.
Everything afterwards should be possible by maven-commands self.
This way it would be much easier to introduce Maven in any company.
Just let me know if you like the idea.
Kind regards,
Robert Scholte
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