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Ondrej Zizka commented on MDEP-426: ----------------------------------- This is the workaround I could omit if this was implemented. http://code.google.com/p/jawabot/source/detail?r=8ef1738b1ea566204ef5c390d82e8e5dadef7d43# > Add `ignoreIfNotExists` to dependency:unpack > -------------------------------------------- > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira