--also-make-phase
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Key: MNG-5059
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5059
Project: Maven 2 & 3
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Command Line
Affects Versions: 3.0.3
Reporter: Jesse Glick
Background:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/201104.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
{{--also-make}} (with {{--projects}}) is useful, but suffers from the problem
that dependent projects are always built to the same goal/phase as the selected
project(s). That is fine for e.g. {{compile}} or {{install}}, but not for e.g.
{{test}} where you would only want to build {{compile}} (or {{test-compile}})
for dependencies, not actually test them.
Suggest a variant form of this parameter (say {{--also-make-phase}} / {{-amp}})
which would accept a goal or phase to run on dependencies in place of the
regular arguments. For example, to run a unit test after making sure all its
dependencies have been (re-)compiled:
{noformat}
mvn -amp test-compile -pl testedmod test -Dtest=OneTest
{noformat}
or to run an (unpacked) web application after (re-)compiling libraries it uses:
{noformat}
mvn -amp compile -pl webapp jetty:run
{noformat}
You might want to pass a goal rather than a phase, so the name could be
misleading, but I think that would be a rarer use case. Ditto passing multiple
goals/phases for the upstream projects.
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