Hi Jason,
BTW: Is there a good reason to remove the support of profiles.xml file in Maven
3.0....cause it makes pom.xml a little bit smaller...
It was removed originally to simplify the work in refactoring the way the
profiles work.
Then upon looking at any of the projects where I employed this I found that I need many
> separate profile.xml files that it ended up being easier to maintain
> having separate projects.
> Take for example the case where you want to test
> a particular database driver with an ORM.
> The project doesn't scale because has to deal with
> your whole build in order to add support for a driver.
> Whereas encouraging a separate build makes it far more
> modular, self-contained and ultimately easier to manage.
Hm....
I also chatted with Milos and in the cases where you want project
> specific properties we could add some scoping of profile
> application by GA(V) in the settings.xml.
But the problem with settings.xml in my opinion is that it is stored
outside the project folders...(.m2/settings.xml)...
I see the pro about profiles.xml in it's location inside the project it
self (version controled with the project)...
In my case it was simply to control the values of some properties (scm
connection etc. at home and for online...) ...so it was best in
profiles.xml ....so i could simple do mvn -Ponline to active the online
values for the Subversion repository...and in my settings.xml
automatically activated my "homeoffice" profile...without editing my
settings.xml and "poluting" it with project specific information...
It seemed to be a little bit cleaner to put such information into
profiles.xml instead into the pom....but that's my point of view...
> So I would favor scoped profile application from settings.xml
> over profiles.xml files in projects.
It's not impossible to put back, and we might if it causes
> a lot of grief. But I think we added the feature
> originally without much thinking about it.
It does not cause a lot of grief, cause it's simply to solve...just a
little bit discomfort...
Many thanks for the explanation...
Kind regards
Karl Heinz Marbaise
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