different versions of the plugin.... you need to specify the version of the plugin you are asking help about as the same version you are using.... otherwise it answers for thew latest version
On 12 January 2012 15:51, Adam Dyga <ad...@tlen.pl> wrote: > Hello, > > I have some problems with "goals not found". When I execute: > > > mvn help:describe -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.plugins > -DartifactId=maven-dependency-plugin > > > among many goals I get: > > ... > dependency:get > Description: Downloads a single artifact transitively from the specified > remote repositories. Caveat: will always check the central repository > defined in the super pom. You could use a mirror entry in your settings.xml > ... > dependency:help > Description: Display help information on maven-dependency-plugin. > Call > mvn dependency:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> > to display parameter details. > ... > > > But if I execute "mvn dependency:help" or "mvn dependency:get" I get: > > > [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'dependency'. > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Required goal not found: dependency:help in > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.0 > > > Is this normal? This happens not only with dependency plugin but others too. > On the other hand dependency:list (for instance) works fine. > My Maven version is: > > > Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 21:16:01+0200) > Java version: 1.6.0_30 > Java home: c:\xxxx\jdk1.6.0_30\jre > Default locale: de_DE, platform encoding: Cp1252 > OS name: "windows xp" version: "5.1" arch: "x86" Family: "windows" > > > Regards, > AD > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
