[MARTIFACT-6] create buildinfo file in root artifact instead of last module

[jira-importer]

Hervé Boutemy opened MARTIFACT-6 and commented

when used with multi-modules build, current implementation creates the buildinfo file in the last module (that will be deployed to repository, more precisely)
This is because buildinfo records fingerprints/hashes of the result of the build, then artifacts to be fingerprinted are available only at the end of the build

It works, but it adds a level of complexity to find the buildinfo file

It would be a lot easier to use if buildinfo could be generated (and eventually deployed) in root directory

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Affects: 3.0.0

Issue Links:

• MARTIFACT-8 multi-module: copy aggregate buildinfo to root target

Remote Links:

• discussion on plugin improvements
  

[jira-importer]

Hervé Boutemy commented

now that I opened this issue and took time to clearly describe it, generating a buildinfo file in the root directory is not hard: what is harder is to install/deploy it, because root artifact and attached sub-artifacts have already been deployed

then it would be easy to generate a buildinfo file on local disk that could not be deployed during the buildinfo goal: this could perhaps be a good initial compromise to discover next steps

[jira-importer]

Hervé Boutemy commented

perhaps it would be better even to currently drop the "attach" feature of the goal: given buildinfo file format is not really stable, publishing it to Central Repository makes half sense