Hi Mark, really interesting discussion indeed.
I like very much your idea of including mixins within POM files; this weekend I did some code (which is actually very very similar to your description) and I ended up with something working. I've contributed my code to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5102 Hope this helps! Maurizio On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > Great to see this being discussed. > > > Initial thoughts that come to mind reading that you've got here ( which for > the most part all looks good ). > > You mentioned the possibility of having the templates inline, rather than > <templateSpecs> I was wondering if using <templateManagement> to be > consistent with <dependencyManagement> and <pluginManagement>. If you > have > multiple inline templates, how would you identify them? <id>'s like > plugins? > > <templateManagement> > <template> > <id>web</id> > <build> > <plugins> > ... > </plugins> > </build> > </template> > </templateManagement> > > Feels really ik and complicated as you say. If the template was external, > how does the template file get attached/referenced? At work, we currently > use the build-helper-plugin from codehaus to attach additional files to our > build to push to the repository, maybe pulling that plugin, or a variation > of it in as something to attach template files ( or any ) to the build, and > still have the <template/> section you mention to use them. > > The other idea I had a long time ago when thinking about this briefly, is > there any way of using XInclude [1] with a custom URI resolver for > repositories to just pull in POM parts ( not as type safe tho ). > > <project xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> > <groupId>com.mytest</groupId> > <artifactId>mytest</artifactId> > <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> > > <xi:include href="com.mytest:mymixin:1.0:xml" xpointer="mixindeps"/> > > </project> > > > ( here - mymixin.xml could be a standard pom, with <dependencies > id="mixingdeps"> > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ > > > -- > "Great artists are extremely selfish and arrogant things" — Steven Wilson, > Porcupine Tree > > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Brett Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > <templateSpecs> > -- Maurizio Pillitu http://maurizio.pillitu.name [email protected]
