With the update to Maven 3.0.4, are you sure it's not working? The build that is running right now:
https://builds.apache.org/view/A-F/view/Aries2/job/AriesWithSnapshotDependencies/348/ seems to be building OK. Some test failures, but it's progressing. Dan On Feb 1, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Holly Cummins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As you may have noticed, I've failed to fix the snapshot build. Even though > it doesn't produce releasable artifacts, I think this build is important to > validate the interoperability of our codebase, and I'd like to get it fixed. > > The problem is a cyclic dependency between the semantic versioning plugin > (which uses util to process manifests) and the util bundle (which uses the > versions plugin to validate its versions). > > I can see three solutions, none of which are perfect: > > 1. Pull the versions plugin out from the main build, as we do for the eba and > esa plugins, and parent. > 2. Update our version mangling in the build so we always build with the > released version of the plugin. This is only a partial solution, since it > only works when the util bundle doesn't actively require snapshot version > function, and it relies us to remember never to update the util bundle to use > the latest versions snapshot. (I think this is why the build was still > failing, even after I tried this fix, a while ago - it could never have > worked until we released the versions plugin!) > > More generally, it means we can't drive new function in the versions plugin > in our build until it's released, which I think would be unfortunate. > > 3. Strip the util dependency from versions by cutting and pasting needed > code. Not clean, not DRY, not OSGi-ish, but it fixes the problem. > > My personal preference is for 1, but I don't think it's an easy choice. What > do others think? > > Holly > -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com
