On Tuesday 16 December 2008 Trevor Harmon wrote: > Let me use a different plugin as an example. Let's say I'm developing > a desktop application, and it runs in two different modes depending on > the command-line options. I don't want to keep typing in the same long > string of options all the time, so I pickle them into two separate Ant > targets, "mode1" and "mode2". Then I can run them like this: > > ant mode1 > ant mode2
I would say that is what profiles are for: to configure plugin's in different ways. But that is not even similar to ant's tasks. It's switching the build configuration, not executing another task. And BTW: Maven's primary goal is to help building and packaging software, not starting the developed piece of software, so IMHO the exec-plugin is not a good example here. hth, - martin
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