Thanks, Joe. I've only just got round to looking into this again. I
found I can get this to work by adding the following to the maven
assembly plugin's components.xml file:
component
roleorg.codehaus.plexus.archiver.Archiver/role
role-hintext/role-hint
Hi,
I'm trying to create a zip file using the assembly plugin, but I'd
like it to have a different extension (not .zip). I've tried using
finalName/, but that still insists on giving the file the .zip
extension.
Is this possible using the assembly plugin, or should I be using something else?
Hi Graham,
The extension for the assembly is configured with the format element
of the assembly descriptor. There are only a couple of supported
formats. My guess is that you'd have to write a custom Archiver to get a
different extension, but haven't looked under the hood of the assembly
