I will never become a fan of maven.
Hey maven, just tell me where your local repository is. Oh no problem
% mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=settings.localRepository -q -DforceStdout
And the wonderful output is:
[INFO] [stdout] /home/harald/.m2/repository
And I am sure [INFO] [stdout] are not part of what I actually wanted to know. In fact it couldn't be more useless in the output.🤦♀️ 🙂↔️
And for added insult, running this burns 5 CPU seconds. This is abysmal.
A helpful answer on SO starts with these hints:
«
Maven uses standard slf4j logging, wrapped in a plexus container. https://maven.apache.org/maven-logging.html
You should be able to configure the slf4j bindings to provide different output formats as detailed here http://logback.qos.ch/manual/layouts.html#log4jXMLLayout
»
I am sure one step is to sacrifice some animal in a bloody ceremony. Couldn't be easier.
(Sorry for the rant, I develop Java sine the 90' but some of its eco-system is just as bad as JavaScript's).
Harald
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