Romain Manni-Bucau created MNG-5994:
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Summary: add explicit ordering support for plugins
Key: MNG-5994
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5994
Project: Maven
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 3.3.9
Reporter: Romain Manni-Bucau
Hi
On one side maven doesn't really support plugin ordering in a deterministic
manner (on some doc the merging mecanism states it follows the pom ordering but
with some exceptions making a pom rarely deterministic and user friendly or at
a very very high cost when pom hierarchy + profile are there).
On another side it is more and more common to need to add some custom
processing (another plugin, a main through mvn-exec or a groovy script) between
2 plugins. Very common use cases are frontend optimizations, documentation
generation etc...
That's why I'd like maven to support an explicit ordering. It can be as easy as
adding to plugin a before/after tag(s) referring execution id of another plugin.
This would allow end users to explicitly control their whole build chain
without having to hack maven with either meta-tasks, custom mojo or worse
custom lifecycle. This would also finally allows users to remove workaround
using wrong phases to ensure of the ordering for instance.
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