The lates plexus-utils blows up the testing harness too because it changes some of the core classes. I don't remember the exact compilation error, but I discussed with Brett on IRC.
-----Original Message----- From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 5:31 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Being careful with backward compat On 3 Mar 07, at 4:57 PM 3 Mar 07, Arnaud HERITIER wrote: > Jason, > > Couldn't we enforce the usage of something like jdiff to check if > there's an incompatibility between releases. Yup, we could use that or Clirr as Vincent suggested. That's one part of the answer. The separate integration tests are another part and we'll get there. The plugins released need to be exercised against released and upcoming versions. > It something that we already had (incompatibility of m1 plugins with > m1.0.x whereas m1.1 isn't released) and which is really damaging for > our community. Yes, I think Torsten's awesome minijar plugin is going to be very handy. I'm about to check into trunk some plugin configurations which will hide some common dependencies which cause problems. Plexus Utils being one of them. Jason. > > Arnaud > > On 3/3/07, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The current release of the Surefire plugin is a bit a nightmare with >> respect to backward compatibility. The problem is incompatible >> changes made to plexus-utils. The most current release will work with >> 2.0.5 because it still uses plexus-utils 1.1 but with the upgraded >> plexus-utils in trunk in fork mode will make it blow up. I'm trying >> to fix this now as in fork mode the branch and trunk now fail because >> 1.1 and 1.4 of plexus utils have changes in the command line classes. >> I am doing some magic with Torsten's Minijar plugin on the trunk, but >> for the branch I don't know if we want to employ this but with >> plexus- >> utils 1.4 there now we're going screw everyone. John and Kenney >> chatted about it briefly but we probably want to address this quickly >> and in a new release of surefire. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
