Re: Remove "cayenne-modeler-maven-plugin" in 5.0?

Michael Gentry <[email protected]> Sun, 3 May 2026 19:10:31 -0400
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> What's preventing those people from installing the Modeler?

Honestly, enterprise policy, especially on Windows systems that were much
more locked down than Macs. Running CM as a Maven plugin backdoored the app
into their systems. I could also make them a cm.bat file or give them the
mvn command to run. The latter was usually preferred as running a .bat file
was against policy.

mrg


On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 5:37=E2=80=AFPM Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]=
> wrote:

> I just whacked it yesterday :) Made Modeler internals a bit cleaner.
>
> >  make it easier for people to run CM who didn't have it installed.
>
> I understand that this is the use case, but I can't relate to it. What's
> preventing those people from installing the Modeler?
>
> A.
>
>
> > On May 3, 2026, at 5:09=E2=80=AFPM, Michael Gentry <[email protected]=
> wrote:
> >
> > I always created a cm.sh script in the root project directory to make i=
t
> > easier for people to run CM who didn't have it installed.
> >
> > The solution you show, for the Mac at least, works if you have CM
> installed
> > and a Mac. :-)
> >
> > I don't have any strong opinions, but if the burden of keeping the Mave=
n
> > plugin is minimal, I think I'd want to keep it.
> >
> > mrg
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 5:30=E2=80=AFPM Andrus Adamchik <aadamchik@gmai=
l.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> FYI: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-2925. Anyone feels
> >> strongly about the need for starting the Modeler from Maven? This alwa=
ys
> >> looked odd to me. Besides the following works just fine (on Mac):
> >>
> >> $ open CayenneModeler.app --args ~/path/to/cayenne-project.xml
> >>
> >> Andrus
>
>

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