Details
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New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Duplicate
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3.3.9
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Description
Hi
On one side maven doesn't really support plugin ordering in a deterministic manner (on some doc the merging mecanism states it follows the pom ordering but with some exceptions making a pom rarely deterministic and user friendly or at a very very high cost when pom hierarchy + profile are there).
On another side it is more and more common to need to add some custom processing (another plugin, a main through mvn-exec or a groovy script) between 2 plugins. Very common use cases are frontend optimizations, documentation generation etc...
That's why I'd like maven to support an explicit ordering. It can be as easy as adding to plugin a before/after tag(s) referring execution id of another plugin.
This would allow end users to explicitly control their whole build chain without having to hack maven with either meta-tasks, custom mojo or worse custom lifecycle. This would also finally allows users to remove workaround using wrong phases to ensure of the ordering for instance.
