since Apache Cayenne cant just fork its own copy of surefire plugin, i think releasing 2.5 is badly needed.
-D On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Andrey Razumovsky > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> While enchancing our Hudson builds here at Apache Cayenne, we got bitten by >> SUREFIRE-551. It is now fixed, but doesn't exist in any released version. >> We've found the snapshot in http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/. So our >> questions are: >> 1. Is 2.5-SNAPSHOT stable enough? >> 2. Can we rely on http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/ repository in our >> builds (i.e. aren't there any plans to delete snapshot from that repo)? >> 3. When official 2.5 will be released? >> >> Thanks, >> Andrey >> > > For 1) & 2) NEVER rely on snapshots for your builds. > > There are a number of problems with using the snapshot repository. > 1) You can't select which snapshots to use, it is all or nothing. So > if you aren't following best practice and locking down plugin versions > then you will automatically start using snapshot versions when you > didnt want to. > 2) Snapshots get rebuilt so it may work one day and fail the next. > > I wrote up the steps I use for this scenario > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Patching+Maven+Plugins > > Essentially you take a copy of the source and build a local version of > the plugin. > If you use a suitable numbering scheme when the official release > arrives it will replace your patched version. > > I can't answer 3) for you. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
