Re: [m2e-users] M2E plugin : please convince me

[Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

M2e 1.2 now supports placing your lifecycle mapping metadata in a
global location so that it doesn't need to pollute individual project
poms.  This at least addresses one of your original concerns.  To do
this, there is now a second quickfix in your pom editor to handle
lifecycle mapping metadata mismatches.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Jean Seurin <jean.eastcode@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm surprised doing an easy `mvn install` on each every component manually
> is not considered 'incremental build' by the community …
>
> :) ok, just joking
>
> thanks for that brief and enlightening comment.
>
> I get it now, and I think M2E is worth a new configuration attempt to get
> that legendary 'incremental build support' -- and an update to 1.2.x , big
> thanks for this tip
>
> That said, we've had that many discrepancies in the past between M2E vs CLI
> that I've had to advise people using M2E in my team to do CLI for every
> goal, defeating the purpose of M2E and indeed the usage of Eclipse itself
> because there doesn't seem to be any alternative to M2E for Maven support
> (might be wrong here) .
>
> Anyway, laudable goal, the discrepancies should disappear as the project
> matures over time.
>
> Looking forward to try the maven incrermental build solution!
>
> cheers
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Anders Hammar <anders@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The simple answer, IMHO, is that you want incremental build support.
>> That's what m2e tries to give you. As Maven and its plugins doesn't
>> support that, m2e can't delegate it. Forcing a Maven build (even if it
>> would just be part of the full lifecycle) would give you a very slow
>> Eclipse environment. That's what we had in m2e 0.x, which was not
>> really usable when you had a decent number of projects.
>>
>> Regarding configuring the lifecycle mappings, you an now (m2e 1.2+) do
>> that outside of the pom if you want.
>>
>> /Anders
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Jean Seurin <jean.eastcode@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > I've been using maven for a quiet long time now, and I'm still at a loss
>> > when trying to understand the philosophy behind M2E.
>> >
>> > In my view, Maven config defines the project, the IDE reads it, and
>> > that's
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Not the other way around: having errors like "M2E plugin execution not
>> > covered" just doesn't make sense to me.
>> > And solving the problem by adding a config snippet to the pom looks even
>> > more startling!
>> >
>> > Since when do you make the project config aware of the tool you use to
>> > develop??
>> >
>> >
>> > Now that's only my very rough point of view, coming from someone that
>> > has
>> > been using the maven command line and that is used to it.
>> >
>> > I'm sure there's a good reason why M2E tries to "integrate the maven
>> > lifecycle phases into Eclipse" - if I may describe it this way - rather
>> > than
>> > bluntly delegating all tasks to Maven itself (since it owns the project
>> > config).
>> >
>> > Please, please, explain to me what bring M2E over pure Maven delegation,
>> > you'd make my day (if not my week)
>> >
>> > rgds
>> >
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