[MDEP-178] Create a goal to download single artifact transitively

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Assignee: Daniel Fabulich
• Reporter: Daniel Fabulich
• Created: 28/Aug/08 05:40
• Updated: 29/Aug/08 17:30
• Resolved: 28/Aug/08 05:42

Description

I've always found it to be a hassle to test plugins that don't need to be wired up in POM files, e.g. the archetype, dependency, scm plugins. I find that to test them I have to create a dummy POM file with a <pluginRepositories> section, as described in our guide to testing staged releases.

http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-releases.html

I thought it would be cool to have a downloader goal that let you do this:

mvn dependency:get
-Dartifact=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1
-DrepoUrl=http://people.apache.org/~olamy/staging-repo

That would retrieve the plugin into your local repository, so you could immediately start using it.

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1:checkin -Dmessage=foo

Sub-Tasks

• Allow downloading artifact with classifier (e.g. sources jar): Closed