Ondromih profiles to speedup dev build

[OndroMih]

As described in the README:

• noextras profile - skips building extra artifacts, e.g. GlassFish Embedded artifacts
• noweb profile - skips building GlassFish Server Web distribution

[dmatej]

Nice, for the first time you reproduced my local issue on Jenkins :D
I will push the fix now ... #24535

[dmatej]

Btw, what if we would keep a conventional -Pskip* prefix? -PskipExtras sounds natural to me. What other people think about it? Also it should be documented in README.md.
It is getting more and more complicated. Maybe one could just use -pl :!extras
Or we could add these exclusions to -Pfastest.

[OndroMih]

Unfortunately, -pl !:extras doesn't work well - it only excludes the extras module but still builds all its child modules.

Maybe it's better to use a completely different approach with -am to build a specific distribution artifact and all its dependencies?

E.g., to build GlassFish full only: mvn -T4C clean install -Pfastest -am -pl appserver/distributions/glassfish

[dmatej]

Sad, you are right with those exclusions: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5230

Wow, to my surprise this works, is it what gives the result you needed?
mvn clean install -Pfastest -pl 'org.glassfish.main.distributions:glassfish' -am -T4C

I will try yet with an empty .m2/repository ...

[hs536]

IMHO, -Pskip* prefix sounds natural if we skip a process, but, in this case, -Pno* prefix also sounds natural to me because no archive is generated.

[OndroMih]

Wow, to my surprise this works, is it what gives the result you needed? mvn clean install -Pfastest -pl 'org.glassfish.main.distributions:glassfish' -am -T4C

@dmatej, yes, this is exactly what I would like to achieve, but with a simple command line. Unfortunately, maven doesn't support specifying command line options in a profile or in a file. I would like to have a maven plugin that can modify the default maven command line options so that we could enable the plugin with a profile like "dist-glassfish" and run the same as the above command just with mvn clean install -Pfastest,dist-glassfish. Or at least put the arguments -pl 'org.glassfish.main.distributions:glassfish' -am -T4C into a file called dist-glassfish.config and then run the same just with mavn clean install -Pfastest --args dist-glassfish.config

None of these options are supported by maven currently. And the closest to that is these noweb and noextras profiles. Or we can just document how to use the -pl and -am arguments to build specific distributions and use that instead of these profiles.

What do you think? Is it worth adding these profiles or just document -pl and -am arguments? Since Maven 3.9.0, , the maven arguments can be specified in the MAVEN_ARGS environment variable (https://maven.apache.org/configure.html#maven_args-environment-variable), so it's maybe enough to use them instead of profiles.