Here: 00:18] BrianFox: btw, is it me or are the assembly IT's pretty screwed? [00:18] BrianFox: i see that it depends on the plug-it-plugin in sandbox but it doesn't even compile right now [00:20] brett: not tried, wouldn't doubt it [00:21] brett: I'm just writing up mails about this sort of topic. We have big problems with testing, documentation, and other general stuff like that.
[00:27] BrianFox: heh. i tried upgrading archiver and that somehow caused massive failures in the testing harness so I'm about at a dead end soon. [00:28] BrianFox: something about plexus container.setup() doesn't exist anymore [00:28] brett: probably because that dragged in a new, incompatible version of the plexus container -----Original Message----- From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:28 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Being careful with backward compat I can't find or recall this - do you have a log/date? - Brett On 05/03/2007, at 7:46 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote: > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
