Re: [mojo-dev] Re: Build-Helper-Maven-Plugin / Build-MetaData-Maven-Plugin

2013-04-18 Thread Curtis Rueden
Hi Stephen & everyone, As always, thanks for your comments and blog posts! I really appreciate all the time you pour into this community. > People having to use ${basedir}/../.. and feeling uneasy about it... > to my mind that is the perfect balance. It's quick... it's dirty... > you know it's a

Re: [mojo-dev] Re: Build-Helper-Maven-Plugin / Build-MetaData-Maven-Plugin

2013-04-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
http://developer-blog.cloudbees.com/2013/04/the-maven-way.html On 16 April 2013 16:16, Stephen Connolly wrote: > > > > On 16 April 2013 16:11, Mark H. Wood wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:48:35PM +0100, Stephen Connolly wrote: >> [snip] >> > The reality is that the true goal of the Maven

Re: [mojo-dev] Re: Build-Helper-Maven-Plugin / Build-MetaData-Maven-Plugin

2013-04-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 16 April 2013 16:11, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:48:35PM +0100, Stephen Connolly wrote: > [snip] > > The reality is that the true goal of the Maven Way™ is that your pom > should > > be as close as possible to the following > > > > > > ... > > ... > > ... > > ...

Re: [mojo-dev] Re: Build-Helper-Maven-Plugin / Build-MetaData-Maven-Plugin

2013-04-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:48:35PM +0100, Stephen Connolly wrote: [snip] > The reality is that the true goal of the Maven Way™ is that your pom should > be as close as possible to the following > > > ... > ... > ... > ... > > ... > > > > Every line you add to the above is movi

Re: [mojo-dev] Re: Build-Helper-Maven-Plugin / Build-MetaData-Maven-Plugin

2013-04-15 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 15 April 2013 20:42, Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote: > A case in point of the improving (though not related to the idea of being >> able to get a property exposing the root (never mind the which root: >> reactor/inheritence/**inheritence within reactor) but more related to >> re-engineering to make

Re: [mojo-dev] Re: Build-Helper-Maven-Plugin / Build-MetaData-Maven-Plugin

2013-04-15 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, based on the requirement which has been made to introduce a new property for the root of the reactor I 100% agree with Stephens argumentation. I have taken a look into those question on SO and all of those things can be solved in better ways than suggested on SO, cause many people didn't

Re: [mojo-dev] Re: Build-Helper-Maven-Plugin / Build-MetaData-Maven-Plugin

2013-04-15 Thread Stephen Connolly
CC'ing users@maven because I think my point applies to the entire Maven community: Well my view is that such practice is bad practice, there are good ways to do things and bad ways to do things. Hard-coding references between projects using the file system is bad practice. For one thing it fails t