Re: [Maven-plugins-developer] maven package plugin

[Andy J. <an...@aj...>]

On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 15:10, Trygve Laugst=F8l wrote:
> As suggested by Andy on irc, I would like to propose a new 'package'
> plugin for creating deb and rpm packages. It should also support the
> creating of package repositories for apt and the likes.
>
> I've rambeled up a suggestion at my wiki:
>
> http://wiki.nostdal.net/Articles_2fMaven_2fPackagePlugin
>
> I would like some feedback on the suggestion either by comments on the
> list or just change the wiki page.


Its a shame that Maven plugins do not support the idea of subclassing :-) W=
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then would be perfect would be to have the "package" plugin and then derive=
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RPM, Deb, etc from that so hence we have the same goals and properties and=
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just add on specific things for particular output formats. Oh well ...

I'm not sure of how well Maven plugins support the idea of *using* a differ=
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plugin ... kind of like a sub-plugin ... with this we could have a package=
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plugin that gives a lot of the logic for packaging systems, and then we hav=
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RPM, Deb plugins that use this package plugin.

I think the idea of having a common interface is definitely the way to go .=
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since the input is basically the same, and the output is a file. Obviously=
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there are other formats of "package" ... e.g tgz, zip. What I'm not convinc=
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about is whether to have these as a single plugin (and have logic internall=
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that checks on the output type and does things accordingly), or whether to=
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have separate plugins with the same goals and properties.

I think i'd tend towards having separate plugins solely because there are=20
projects where you want to output multiple package formats ... so I could=20
output a Deb, RPM, and TGZ. If I had these as a single plugin I would have =
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edit my project.properties and then run the plugin, and edit it again and r=
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it ... whereas if i have separate plugins I would just do "maven rpm", "mav=
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deb", "maven tgz" etc. Having separate plugins does give us the problem of=
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maintaining consistency in goal and property naming - adopting your "create=
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"create-snapshot", and "copy-resources" in Deb and RPM for now makes a lot =
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sense.






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Andy