[MNG-2596] Allow support for multiple classifier for a given artifact

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vincent Massol
• Created: 10/Oct/06 03:33
• Updated: 06/Apr/15 01:22
• Resolved: 22/Jan/14 20:31

Description

Right now Maven 2.0.x only support a single classifier per artifact. There are cases where more than 1 classifer would be required. For example the Clover plugin modifies the current artifact to add a "clover" classifier. However when the source plugin runs it tries to add another classifier ("sources") to the artifact. As only one classifier is currently supported it's not working (see MSOURCES-10). In the clover plugin code we also have things like:

        // Do not try to find Clovered versions for artifacts with classifiers. This is because Maven2 only
        // supports a single classifier per artifact and thus if we replace the original classifier with
        // a Clover classifier the artifact will fail to perform properly as intended originally. This is a
        // limitation.
        if ( artifact.getClassifier() == null )
        {

Issue Links

• is related to: MSOURCES-10 Attached source artifact should not be added for artifacts with classifier
• is related to: MNG-5384 Declarative artifacts
• is related to: MNG-2650 Classifiers are not powerful enough to adress the problem of generating different flavours of an artifact