On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Vincent Siveton wrote:
> And what about profile activation? I mean do you think it could be a
> good idea to add scripting in the activation part?
No, I think that could be remedied without having to resort to scripting. Once
you open the door it just gets opened wider and wider. In Maven proper I don't
think we should go beyond providing a configuration in the form of XML. I think
we just need to make it easier to create and add profile activators.
> I know that pom.xml is not like ant and other, but in some cases,
> using antrun to do basic validation could be overkill IMHO
>
> Cheers
>
> Vincent
>
> 2010/10/20 Jason van Zyl <ja...@sonatype.com>:
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Vincent Siveton wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I don't remember if this topic was already discussed in the past.
>>>
>>> Some of our plugins have a <skip/> boolean parameter. In my case, I
>>> want to use expression to init this boolean, i.e.
>>> <skip>${project.packaging} != "pom"</skip> or similar.
>>> So, WDYT to add expression interpretor for plugins parameters?
>>>
>>
>> I really don't think this is a good idea. We step into XML programming which
>> is something we categorically say the POM does not allow (apart from Ant Run
>> Plugin).
>>
>> It would just degrade into scripting, I think.
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Vincent
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jason
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