My recommendation is just
1.) It'd be best to run tests by default if your going to build the
source release. If you do not need to run the tests because you didn't
alter the source, perhaps you shouldn't be building the source release
and instead be using the binary release.
2.) That its not necessary to define and a custom profile to define
the test property, it can just be in the properties section of the
pom. That the following is rather long winded
<!-- skip tests by default, but allow override
on command line by setting property "-Dmaven.test.skip"-->
<!-- Disabled by default, change activeByDefault to true to enable -->
<profile>
<id>skiptests</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<properties>
<maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
When the following code in the pom has the same effect
<properties>
<maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
</properties>
3.) That in Maven 2.x you can create a custom profiles.xml to place
your local settings in, see example:
http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/trunk/dspace/profiles-example.xml
Or that if your trying to use 3.x, you can do the same in the ~/.m2/settings.xml
MarkD
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Mark Diggory <mdigg...@atmire.com> wrote:
> actually, for clarification, you can do this in both
> ~/.m2/settings.xml and in your projects local profiles.xml file in
> Maven 2.x and in Maven 3.x you only do it in the settings.xml because
> profiles.xml has been dropped. So a correction, you do it in your
> settings.xml
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Mark Diggory <mdigg...@atmire.com> wrote:
>> Ok, now I get it, its that folks don't know Maven, MarkW you use the
>> "profiles.xml" file to define your local build settings / defaults
>> that differ from the generic build. So in a sense, you already have a
>> file based approach present.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 02:43:45PM -0500, Tim Donohue wrote:
>>>> Mark & all,
>>>>
>>>> We actually are using 'maven.test.skip' property. It's just that we
>>>> default it to "true".
>>>>
>>>> So, running:
>>>>
>>>> mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=false
>>>>
>>>> will execute all our Unit Tests.
>>>>
>>>> If I recall correctly, I think we defaulted this property to 'true'
>>>> (i.e. skip unit tests) because we didn't want people building DSpace
>>>> from the source release (dspace-src-release-x.x.x) to need to remember
>>>> to pass a flag to turn off the Unit Tests. But, if there is a good
>>>> reason to change this default setting, we could obviously do so.
>>>>
>>>> We would just need to make sure to change our build & install
>>>> Documentation to recommend running 'mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true',
>>>> if you don't want to wait for all the Unit Tests to run.
>>>
>>> And that's why I wanted a flag file or some such: nobody should have
>>> to type '-Dsome.long.unmemorable.property.name' every! single! time!
>>> Not developers. Not installers.
>>>
>>> But it's not a major point; I just offered my approach as a way to
>>> perhaps make testing more palatable.
>>>
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