On 31/03/2010, at 2:41 AM, Wendy Smoak wrote: > If you enable parallel builds so that multiple things can build at > once, how does that play with the local repository? > > Last I remember hearing, there is no locking so concurrent access by > multiple Maven processes is not advisable.
It's not actually a huge issue, but I think it mostly hits people trying to build the same thing twice and installing different snapshots over each other. > > Then again, Don Brown did some work with parallel artifact > downloading, so perhaps that helped? (As of what Maven version?) No, it only downloads different artifacts in parallel. > > Just wanting to find out if this has been considered and how it's handled. Use different local repository configurations... which will require some careful planning of your queues. - Brett -- Brett Porter [email protected] http://brettporter.wordpress.com/
