michael-o commented on a change in pull request #416: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/416#discussion_r548715644
########## File path: maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/ReactorReader.java ########## @@ -263,15 +271,28 @@ private boolean isPackagedArtifactUpToDate( MavenProject project, File packagedA while ( iterator.hasNext() ) { Path outputFile = iterator.next(); + + if ( Files.isDirectory( outputFile ) ) + { + continue; + } + long outputFileLastModified = Files.getLastModifiedTime( outputFile ).toMillis(); if ( outputFileLastModified > artifactLastModified ) { - LOGGER.warn( - "Packaged artifact for {} is not up-to-date compared to the build output directory; " - + "file {} is more recent than {}.", - project.getArtifactId(), - relativizeOutputFile( outputFile ), relativizeOutputFile( packagedArtifactFile.toPath() ) - ); + File alternative = determineLooseDirectoryForArtifact( project, artifact ); + if ( alternative != null ) + { + LOGGER.warn( "File {} is more recent than the packaged artifact for {}; using {} instead", + relativizeOutputFile( outputFile ), project.getArtifactId(), + relativizeOutputFile( alternative.toPath() ) ); + } + else + { + LOGGER.warn( "File {} is more recent than the packaged artifact for {}; " + + "cannot use a loose directory for this type of artifact", Review comment: This sounds better, but introduces another term 'workspace' which is in Maven Core, but not visible to users too. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org