Anybody have some ideas on this? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Jon Paynter <kittl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Im trying to construct an assembly descriptor to replicate the output of > our > ant tasks. Ive run into a few issues with filtering > > 1) is there a way to do a mass rename on filter? > the current setup gives a special *.vpp extention to files that need to > be filtered with velocity. after filters have been applied, the .vpp > extention is stripped off and the resulting xml, sh, dat, etc file is used > in the distribution. Does maven support this? ive looked over the > documentation and nothing seems to suggest it does. Specifying individual > files is not workable because the number of files to be filtered is quite > large, and developers are free to add files when needed. > 2) During the filtering process - is there a way to throw an error and fail > the build if one or more properties are not found? Ant does this quite > nicely, but maven just ignores any missing properties. > > 3) When trying to use shared assembly descriptors, it seems > componentDescriptors are not supported. When i try to use the shared > assembly, i get an error: > Error reading assemblies: Failed to locate component descriptor: > src/assemblies/logfiles.xml > > the top of my shared assembly file looks like this: > <assembly> > <id>Dist</id> > <formats> > <format>zip</format> > </formats> > <componentDescriptors> > <componentDescriptor>src/assemblies/logfiles.xml</componentDescriptor> > </componentDescriptors> > <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> > > I made sure the file src/assemblies/logfiles.xml is included in the project > used to install the shared descriptor -- but it doesnt seem to be called. > Any ideas on how to fix this? > >
