Re: What can possibly go wrong with Maven

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to collect everything that can go wrong inside Maven so  
> that it can be clearly pointed out to a user. We currently have a  
> mechanism that analyzes stack traces, isn't localized, and is not  
> very friendly for embedding as everything is couched in the form of  
> console output. Here's the list that I came up with so far and I  
> want to make to make a mechanism that says exactly what's wrong.
>
> Anyone have anything else? I'm not trying to consider everything  
> that happens in plugins. I've identified almost all the places  
> where those errors occur and I would like them to surface at the  
> top in a form that is useful to embedding. As a by product it's  
> easy to produce console output for the CLI. I don't care if the try/
> catch is a mile long it's going to tell users exactly what happened  
> when something goes wrong. I've pushed all console logging out of  
> DefaultMaven and into the CLI. Moved the monitor into the core, but  
> we still have console-centric logging in a bunch of the major  
> components which I should be able to purge by the release of 2.1-
> alpha-1.
>
> Here's the list:
>
> - bad command line parameter
> - malformed settings
> - malformed POM
> - local repository not writable
> - remote repositories not available
> - artifact metadata missing
> - extension metadata missing
> - extension artifact missing
> - artifact metadata retrieval problem
> - version range violation
> - circular dependency
> - artifact missing
> - artifact retrieval exception
> - plugin metadata missing
> - plugin metadata retrieval problem
> - plugin artifact missing
> - plugin artifact retrieval problem
> - plugin dependency metadata missing
> - plugin dependency metadata retrieval problem
> - plugin configuration problem
> - plugin execution failure due to something that is know to  
> possibly go wrong (like compilation failure)
> - plugin execution error due to something that is not expected to  
> go wrong (the compiler executable missing)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Jason van Zyl
> Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven
> jason at sonatype dot com
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@...
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...