Re: Proposed New Structure (starter for 10)

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Phillip Lord writes:

> Lee Hinman <[email protected]> writes:
>> This looks neat to me, and I'm interested in contributing. What's the
>> best place to start with this? (Assuming this is adopted)
>
>
> The roadblock for me at the moment is understanding mvn. If you have
> any time to research this, it would be appreciated. In particular, how
> to add dependencies or plugins without changing the pom.
>
> Phil

So I looked into this briefly, it looks like this can be added to
${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml, specifically, one can specify plugin
groups with:

<pluginGroups>
  <pluginGroup>org.jdee.plugin</pluginGroup>
<pluginGroups>

The docs say: "This element contains a list of pluginGroup elements,
each contains a groupId. The list is searched when a plugin is used and
the groupId is not provided in the command line."

So if we provided a jdee-mvn plugin and added the groupId here, someone
could use

mvn jde:jack-in (or whatever it is called)

And it would search the `org.jdee.plugin` groupId for the plugin.

There is also a "pluginRepositories" element that can be used to add a
repository for downloading plugins, which I could see as being useful
for providing the plugin for download somewhere.

Sources:
- https://maven.apache.org/settings.html#Plugin_Groups
- https://maven.apache.org/settings.html#Plugin_Repositories

-- 
;; Lee

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