Hi Leif,There is a special type of deployer in maven-artifact plugin called "External", which was supposed to be used for executing arbitrary user defined programs (like putty). This deployer is "half-finished". A new protocol sounds like a good idea. Leif: Patches and documentation are always welcomed :)
(Sorry for CC'ing back to the list again, but they'll probably want to review this)
Sounds like a good idea - perhaps a new protocol could be added to artifact (scpexe:// ?) that uses the mentioned parameters. Alternatively, it might be a branch of the existing protocl based on another property - however, I think the new protocol idea is better.
Michal, do you have any current thoughts on the direction of artifact?
Your changes would be welcome - just submit a patch to JIRA when you are done and I'll commit it and release a new version. Let me know if you want to bounce any more ideas around.
If we have solution based on external programs which supports SSH (SCP) which works both on Windows and Linux, we can think about switching
from deploy plugins like to artifact plugin.
Generaly I am trying to provide pure java, ready to use out-of-the box solution. So my vision is: if there is Java libaray which does the same trick as external program - it should be used.
I am progressing with Artifact Transport Libaray called "Wagon" which probably will be used in future verions of Maven( after 1.0). It should be moved to Apache CVS repo in a matter of days.
The main problem with artifact plugin is that it is poorly tested.
I wonder how many people are actually using it and what kind of experinces they have with it...
Wagon has alredy much more unit tests and I am working on integration unit tests.
regards
Michal
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