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Stephen Connolly commented on SUREFIRE-615:
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my preference is the <scope>provided</scope> option, what are other people's
thoughts
> Surefire providers shouldn't need to download old versions of the library
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> Key: SUREFIRE-615
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-615
> Project: Maven Surefire
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: JUnit 3.x support, Junit 4.x support, Maven Surefire
> Plugin, TestNG support
> Affects Versions: 2.5
> Reporter: Brett Porter
> Fix For: 2.6
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> currently, the Surefire plugin uses resolveTransitively to obtain the
> Surefire provider (junit, junit4, junit47, testng). Each of these has a
> compile time dependency on the library itself to interact with their API.
> This results in downloading older versions as well as the newer one requested
> by the project (TestNG 5.7, JUnit 4.0, JUnit 3.8.1). There are two possible
> solutions to this:
> - alter the resolveTranstively method to exclude the artifact that is already
> available from the project
> - set the dependency to 'provided' in the providers POM
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