Re: RFS: jenkins-token-macro-plugin

[Jakub Adam <jakub.adam@ktknet.cz>]

Hi James,

> I noticed that you had to patch in the source/target versions for the
> compiler plugin - I'll work that into the next update on the Jenkins
> plugin parent pom so its not required in future.

Thanks. My current target is to package git plugin. I have some of its other dependencies
in my pipeline, so I'll wait for your next update.

Still what bothers me a bit is the fact that created *.hpi files have libraries they depend on
bundled inside /WEB-INF/lib/ directories, so

  a) the plugin archives are unnecessary huge
  b) we are duplicating libraries in the system
  c) whenever a library is updated, we have to rebuild and reupload the affected Jenkins plugin to
     let it use this new version (probably the biggest drawback I see)

Have you already investigated a possibility if the plugins can reference jars installed
for example in /usr/share/java?

For now, as a first step, it's fine to have the libs bundled, but maybe in a longer term
something should be done with it.

Cheers

Jakub