[MCLEAN-19] 'outputDirectory' configuration property should not be read-only

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Ian P. Springer opened MCLEAN-19 and commented

I am trying to set up a 'dev' build profile that, when enabled, will cause my artifacts to be built directly to an exploded ejb-jar deployment dir, instead of target/classes/. The purpose is to make the development process more efficient by skipping a number of time-consuming intermediate mvn steps (i.e. jarring the artifact, copying the jar to the local repo, unjarring the artifact to its deploy/test location).

Since profiles do not allow you to override project.build.outputDirectory, I proceeded to set the outputDirectory config prop in the maven-clean-plugin, the maven-compiler-plugin, and the maven-resources-plugin. The maven-resources-plugin allowed me to modify the outputDirectory without any complaints, but the maven-clean-plugin and maven-compiler-plugin did not... The clean plugin fails with the following error:

[INFO] Error configuring: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin. Reason: ERROR: Cannot override read-only parameter: outputDirectory in goal: clean:clean

Please make this property non-read-only. Making it read-only seriously limits the flexibility of Maven2.

Thanks,
Ian

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Affects: 2.1

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Ian P. Springer commented

Note, I have filed a similar issue for the compiler plugin - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOMPILER-44.

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Ian P. Springer commented

Note, after some more thought, I think it makes sense for the 'outputDirectory' prop to remain read-only, to force all plugins to share the same output directory (i.e. project.build.outputDirectory). So I think the better way to support my use case is for Maven to allow profiles to override project.build.outputDirectory. I have filed another issue for this (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2598), so feel free to close this issue.

Thanks,
Ian

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Siveton Vincent commented

wont fix like MCOMPILER-44

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Dennis Lundberg commented

Remove "Fix Version/s" because the resolution is "Won't Fix".