Dan Fabulich schrieb:

> The sad tale of SUREFIRE-491 began when I tried to fix SUREFIRE-121.
> 
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-491
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-121
> 
> The request seemed innocent enough.  Wouldn't it be cool if you could
> pass system properties to your tests, like this?
> 
>   mvn clean test -Dbrowser=firefox
> 
> Apparently this used to work in an earlier version of Surefire, even.
> What could go wrong?
> [...]
> Any other suggestions before I just roll ahead with this?

IMHO, the correct fix would be to collect command line properties
somewhere in the model and copy only *those* to the child process.

That might be more work but as you said, it's a) very convenient and b)
the current implementation just isn't doing what the user expects.

Regards,

-- 
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