Hi Peter

Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/12/2002 09:05:14 AM:

[snip]

> I am defining a plugin and I want to use it in 30 or so projects. This 
plugin 
> essentially essentially deals with the way that distributions are built. 
I 
> would like to have some way to define that the plugin is needed so that 
users 
> would not have t0o manually much about with their maven install.

At the moment specifying required plugins in the project.xml is not 
possible. This has been discussed in the past and generally gotten a good 
reception.

> I would also like a way to have a generic maven.xml so that everyoneof 
those 
> projects don't have to add the same customizations.
> 
> Is any of this possible?
You could use the maven.xml to 'download' and install a plugin from a 
repository if it doesn't exist locally. Or you could ship the plugin along 
with the maven.xml and do the install as part of the maven.xml.

HTH,
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dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
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