ok in order to try make all happy :-) I will make that configurable.
@Anders I have pushed a snapshot with a new flag called
mergeUserSettings. Can you try with your use case ?

2012/4/26 Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com>:
> On 26 April 2012 13:57, Stephen Connolly 
> <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 26 April 2012 13:40, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote:
>>
>>> > I would argue that those are broken projects. You should pretty much
>>> always
>>> > use mrm if you are using invoker for testing a maven plugin. There are
>>> > cases where you might use invoker for something else, in which case you
>>> > should not be specifying a custom settings.xml.
>>>
>>> I might be wrong, but this would be the case for most of the plugins
>>> at Apache Maven then. And all mojos at Codehaus Mojo.
>>>
>>
>> Correct. Everyone except versions-maven-plugin @ mojo is doing it wrong ;-)
>>
>
> Some are using the old hack to refer to the default local repo from the
> invoking process, but with Maven 3 the assumptions that makes can be
> invalidated with IDE integrations.
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> > So, in short, if you specify a custom settings.xml then no merge by
>>> default.
>>>
>>> Ah, so could the rule be that if no settings.xml is specified use the
>>> one of the calling process. If one is specified, do not merge by
>>> default?
>>>
>>
>> That would be the correct thing to do IMHO
>>
>
> Of course in that case you need to ensure that you use the same tricks that
> m-release-p uses to get the settings from the session as the assumption
> that settings.xml is even a file on disk is no longer valid in Maven 3 (not
> that I have seen anyone not store their settings in a settings.xml file,
> more that Maven 3 Embedder allows for the settings to be provided by a
> non-file mechanism
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> /Anders
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> That's why I want the calling process' settings-xml to be merged. And
>>> >> I argue that, at least in my use case :-), that would be the default
>>> >> behavior.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > I have no issue with being able to turn it on via the CLI if you know
>>> what
>>> > you are doing, but where a project has provided a custom settings.xml it
>>> > must be assumed that the reason for the custom settings.xml is because
>>> they
>>> > want to control the invoker environment completely... if they are not
>>> using
>>> > mrm then they are being foolish as there is no other way to lock down
>>> the
>>> > invoker environment *and* work transparently behind a proxy at the
>>> present
>>> > time.
>>> >
>>> > If this is not the default behavior but needs to be configured, it has
>>> >> to be able to turn on from command line as one shouldn't have to
>>> >> update the pom IMO.
>>> >>
>>> >> At least my couple of cents,
>>> >> /Anders
>>> >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:15, Stephen Connolly
>>> >> <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> > I actually think the merge feature is a step backwards and I am
>>> toying
>>> >> with
>>> >> > being -1 on the commit.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > for proxies I think mrm-maven-plugin @ mojo is the way to go.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > invoker is a different use case from release, so passing through the
>>> >> > settings is, in general, a bad thing. If you make the merge an opt-in
>>> >> then
>>> >> > that is OK, but personally I cannot see any good use case for it now
>>> that
>>> >> > we have mrm-maven-plugin to solve the proxy issue
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On 26 April 2012 09:07, Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> >> Good catch on the warning for activated profiles.
>>> >> >> They are activated in the maven build so the invoker plugin merge
>>> >> >> those setting with those eventually defined in the mojo
>>> configuration
>>> >> >> field (<settingsFile> ).
>>> >> >> What I can do is made this merge feature optional (off by default
>>> and
>>> >> >> add a debug flag to display it for debugging purpose).
>>> >> >> WDYT ?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> 2012/4/25 Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de>:
>>> >> >> > Hi,
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > just an other question came to my mind
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > What is the purpose of the
>>> >> >> >
>>> >>
>>> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-invoker-plugin-1.6/build-job.html
>>> >> >> This is the format of the file produced by invoker plugin and used
>>> by
>>> >> >> the report mojo.
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > It's given as a link in the docs? But i can't find an explanation
>>> >> which
>>> >> >> > intention it has ? May be i oversight it simply ?
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > Can someone enlighten me?
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > Thanks in advance...
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > Kind regards
>>> >> >> > Karl Heinz Marbaise
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