If my memory serves me right, the failsafe plugin was conceived/developed by a third party -- perhaps codehaus. Then it was later adapted by Apache. I think this is maybe why the two haven't been merged (yet).
Cheers, Paul On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Jeff Jensen < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Integrating Failsafe in the same way as Surefire would be great for a lot > > of people I think. > > > I agree! > > > Personally, I wonder why we don't merge them. > > > I've wondered the same thing... is there a technical reason why it "won't" > or is difficult to make work? > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Personally, I wonder why we don't merge them. > > > > Failsafe adds some lifestyle phase bindings and then changes some > > defaults. Otherwise, it's a giant anti-DRY. Why not expand surefire to > > have the extra executions with shifted defaults for things like test > > class names? > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Oliver B. Fischer > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > @Paul: Yes I think so or we find a way more convenient in this moment. > > > > > > @all: I think this shows perfectly why Failsafe should be integrated as > > > Surefire already is. > > > > > > Oliver > > > > > > Am 28.10.14 16:02, schrieb Paul Benedict: > > >> > > >> Thanks. Now I know when to use this. For my situation, which is > > >> integration > > >> testing against an existing database, I don't need to setup an > > >> environment; > > >> this explains why I never needed to use the plugin. There are other > > cases > > >> the plugin will be valuable, but I wonder if this is why most others > > stick > > >> with surefire. I guess programmers don't scratch unless there's an > itch. > > >> > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> Paul > > >> > > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >>> The answer is on the index page of the failsafe plugin [1]. > > >>> "If you use the Surefire Plugin for running tests..." > > >>> > > >>> /Anders > > >>> > > >>> [1] http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/ > > >>> > > >>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Paul Benedict <[email protected] > > > > >>> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> (to > > >>> [email protected]> > > >>> https://bitbucket.org/obfischer/bugreport-maven-failsafe.git > > >>> lot > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > >
