Re: Maven-sar plugin changes

On Nov 4, 2003, at 8:27 AM, Mauro Talevi wrote:
> Yes, but once the plugin has been installed, it applies the postGoal
> to *all* java:compile, regardless of the fact that it is invoked in a
> project that has the sar plugin as a dependency.
> So it ends up being used in other projects that have no need for it.
> And I think this is counterintuitive - and could also be annoying.

ah, that's bad!

> how about we try to keep it automatised but turn the thing on its head.
> ie have a dependency structure like:
>
>    <goal name="sar:metagenerate" prereqs="java:compile"/>
>    <goal name="sar:sar" prereqs="sar:metagenerate, jar:jar"/>
>
> in this way, someone wanting to compile and generate descriptors would
> call the sar:metagenerate goal in place of java:compile.

That sounds like it would work..
-pete