Mickael Istria created MNG-7426:
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Summary: Allow condition (like <activation>) on mojo executions
Key: MNG-7426
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7426
Project: Maven
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Reporter: Mickael Istria
There are some goals that are only expected to run under some circumstances (eg
a file exists, we're running on a particular OS...). The current solution to
implement that is to create profiles and profiles are great particularly when
multiple invocations or other configurations are involved as they allow to
group things into a meaningful block; however in many cases, one can want to
just decide to enable/disable 1 particular mojo execution. For those cases
where only 1 execution is conditional, profiles seem like a lot of boilerplate
and complexity.
Instead, we could imagine to add to `<execution>` element some `<activation>`
(or whatever other meaningful name) child that would allow similar evaluations
as what's possible with profile execution. When the activation condition is set
and returns false, then the execution would be simply skipped.
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