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Ondrej Zizka updated MDEP-426:
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    Description: 
The {{dependency:unpack}} goal is often used to manage various files like 
(test) resources throughout a multimodule project.

For example, to create a working directory, several artifacts may be unpacked 
into a {{workdir/}}.

To configure this it is convenient to set up the goal in the root module.

This works fine, except two things:

1) The root module itself would fail (as the deps don't exist yet)
2) The modules with the resources depend on themselves, i.e. creating a cyclic 
dependency.

It would be very convenient if this was handled somehow.

My suggestion to add a {{ignoreIfNotExists}} flag, which would just write an 
INFO log message and continue in case that the dependency doesn't exist yet.

That way, users wouldn't have to explicitely enable the execution of the 
{{unpack}} goal for every single direct submodule.

Thanks for considering.

  was:
The {{dependency:unpack}} goal is often used to manage various files like 
(test) resources throughout a multimodule project.

For example, to create a working directory, several artifacts may be unpacked 
into a {{workdir/}}.

To configure this it is convenient to set up the goal in the root module.

This works fine, except two things:

1) The root module itself would fail (as the deps don't exist yet)
2) The modules with the resources depend on themselves, i.e. creating a cyclic 
dependency.

It would be very convenient if this was handled somehow.

My suggestion to add `ignoreIfNotExists` flag, which would just write an INFO 
log message and continue in case that the dependency doesn't exist yet.

That way, users wouldn't have to explicitely enable the execution of the 
{{unpack}} goal for every single direct submodule.

Thanks for considering.

    
> Add `ignoreIfNotExists` to dependency:unpack
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>
>                 Key: MDEP-426
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-426
>             Project: Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: unpack
>    Affects Versions: 2.8
>            Reporter: Ondrej Zizka
>
> The {{dependency:unpack}} goal is often used to manage various files like 
> (test) resources throughout a multimodule project.
> For example, to create a working directory, several artifacts may be unpacked 
> into a {{workdir/}}.
> To configure this it is convenient to set up the goal in the root module.
> This works fine, except two things:
> 1) The root module itself would fail (as the deps don't exist yet)
> 2) The modules with the resources depend on themselves, i.e. creating a 
> cyclic dependency.
> It would be very convenient if this was handled somehow.
> My suggestion to add a {{ignoreIfNotExists}} flag, which would just write an 
> INFO log message and continue in case that the dependency doesn't exist yet.
> That way, users wouldn't have to explicitely enable the execution of the 
> {{unpack}} goal for every single direct submodule.
> Thanks for considering.

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