Romain Manni-Bucau created MNG-5994: ---------------------------------------
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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)