On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote:
> > I'd like to set up a plugin declaration to use the maven-assembly-plugin > to > > put together a kind of standalone uber-distribution from the root. > > In my opinion it's much better to put this in a separate module. > I sort of see what you are talking about, but if I want the distribution to include (say) source code from all of the aggregator's modules, how would the separate module come up with a list of modules? Wouldn't I be repeating the list of modules somewhere? When executing assembly:single you will not be executing the build > lifecycle > (and thus building all modules) but just execute that plugin goal. I see. > Shouldn't > be any problem then, but understand that it's probably not the Maven way as > the assembly artifact being built will not be deployed to the repo. > Oh! OK; I didn't see an assembly:deploy or anything like that. What would you suggest? Thanks, Laird
