Hello again
This is a side-effect of the work on maven-compiler-plugin. The
"incremental build" mechanism is reviewed as a side-effect, for fixing
MCOMPILER-209 [1] among others. When the compiler has detected that no
source file, no dependency and no compiler option has changed, is there
away to notify other plugins (in particular maven-surefire-plugin) so
that they can skip e.g. tests if configured to do so?
If there is no existing mechanism, could the
org.apache.maven.api.plugin.Mojo interface be modified for returning an
enumeration value instead of void? Maybe something like:
public interface Mojo {
enum Status {
EXECUTED,
UNCHANGED,
SKIPPED
}
Status execute();
}
Together with some API, maybe in Session, telling what the previous
plugins returned? For example, Surefire could skip the tests if all
previous plugins (in particular the compiler plugin) returned
Status.UNCHANGED. This behavior would be optional, through some
configuration option.
Martin
[1]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-209
