Tim, you forgot the updating of the plugin tests :-) On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:48:46 -0400, Tim Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the concrete example (use-case). Now I understand better at least > as a list lurker. > I had originally thought you and Michal were debating which way `round to > get metadata to the web container, now I see. > > So if me were you: I'd login to Jira: > create an rfe request > attach the patch(es* - w/ documentation as well) > vote for the enhancement > send the jira issue url to the list with some message like: "...here's the > link to the rfe. If you want the option to jar the classes in a war... vote > for this issue. I use this so that....logging [etc].." > > Users could then "vote" for it... > committers can get a sense of who's looking for this feature. > IMO no feature is without some cost. The new property will likely need to be > documented if it's not already with your patch. Inevitably there will be > mailing list questions about it (hopefully you'd monitor to answer them.) > Any unforeseen issues or downstream affects have to be dealt with - code > maintenance. > Then in the bigger picture someone else will say why are there so many > properties all over, > why is maven hard to learn, why isn't there more documentation, why are > property names not consistent, > why does the war plugin generate more than one artifact. > Not lazy..intelligent. > > -TR > > > [Brill Pappin wrote:] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:45 AM > > Ok, let me explain this one more time. > > [...] > > > > An example of where I specifically use this information: > > I'm sure you've seen how you have have log4j output the file and line > > number of a log message. Now using the versioning API you can also > > output other information as well as the file and line number, such as > > what version it is, the module or company it came from... you can even > > tell things like what dependencies it has etc. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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