Re: unix-maven-plugin philosophy

Joerg Hohwiller <joerg@...> wrote:
> I mean there is maven-dependency-plugin,
> maven-resource-plugin and filtering
> and all what maven already offers.
> Why not just let the user build the package
> content with all features of maven
> to build.outputDirectory and then build
> a package from that.

rpm-cbuilds-maven-plugins works that way.  It lets other plugins prepare the files for insertion into the RPM in ${project.build.directory}/rpm-basedir and does all the voodo to create the RPM.  Of course it only does RPMs, not Deb, and Solaris pkgs.

http://mojo.codehaus.org/cbuild-parent/cbuild-plugin-parent/rpm-cbuild-maven-plugin/build-mojo.html

Lee