Give the ANTLR Maven plugin's antlr goal a skip parameter

[thibgc]

According to https://www.antlr.org/api/maven-plugin/latest/antlr4-mojo.html the antlr goal has no skip parameter. A skip parameter that short-circuits the execution of the goal is a common idiom in Maven plugins, to allow for conditional execution.

[fbiville]

That would indeed be super convenient for multi-module projects, where the plugin is used in only a subset of the modules but these modules depend on other modules.
Basically, that would allow users to run:

./mvnw -am -pl :my-target-module antlr4:antlr4

And configure the plugin to skip at the parent POM level, so that all the resolved modules but my-target-module do nothing when the plugin is invoked.

[ericvergnaud]

I believe we would welcome such enhancement, if someone is willing to submit a PR

[fbiville]

@ericvergnaud I opened #4266 but I had local build issues that I'm not sure were related to the change I did

[jimidle]

Actually, I do want to look at these things myself. There are dependencies on the plug-in, which we could improve. Something like 15 years ago, someone asked if we could do maven artifacts, and so I did. We haven’t really had a look at the build for an age. I want to give it some attention.

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