[MTOOLCHAINS-6] Cannot create custom toolchain type

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Environment: Win 7 Pro SP1 64 Bit, mvn 3.0.4, JDK 1.7.0_45
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Markus Karg
• Created: 19/Feb/14 04:58
• Updated: 18/Feb/15 16:57
• Resolved: 09/Nov/14 07:54

Description

The web site says that it is possible to use other toolchains besides <jdk>.
Actually the site links to a nonexistent TBD page. This is very ugly.

Please tell the truth on the web page: It is simply impossible to use any other toolschain type besides <jdk>!

It would be really cool, if someone could simply write:

<toolchains>
  <type>installshield</type>
  <provides>
    <id>isx</id>
    <version>10.0</version>
    <vendor>macrovision</vendor>
  </provides>
  <configuration>
    <installshieldHome>C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield X</installshieldHome>
  </configuration>
</toolchains>

...and the plugin would in turn simply provide a property that one can read in the POM using ${installshieldHome} – without any need to write Java code, register custom types, provide more xml, whatever!

This seems to be such an obvious need that I just cannot believe that it does not already work exactly that way in the 1.0 release of the toolchains plugin...!

I really beg for that!

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-5718 Change 'provides' from Object to Properties in toolchains.xml
• is related to: MNG-5720 Change 'configuration' from Object to Properties in toolchains.xml