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David M. Lloyd commented on MCOMPILER-320:
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Is it possible that your integration test does not cover the cases I care
about? Is it possible that there is no practical integration test that can do
so? Is it possible that the barriers you are imposing for a small, cheap,
harmless patch are unreasonably high?
I believe it is actually cheaper for me to maintain our fork of the compiler
plugin forever than to try to invent a convoluted test (of all things) that
proves I need what I say I need. That's not a healthy situation for any
project (believe me I know, I have and continue to maintain many open source
projects over these past many years). I can write a test that proves that the
change works, but it is really not possible to write a test that proves a
change is useful: that should be self-evident, and in fact does not take a
great deal of imagination in this case because it's a very straightforward
change.
> Allow additional class path items to be given during compilation
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> Key: MCOMPILER-320
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-320
> Project: Maven Compiler Plugin
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: David M. Lloyd
> Assignee: Robert Scholte
> Priority: Major
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> At present it is very difficult to include additional class path items during
> compilation that are not dependencies. But this is a very useful capability,
> especially when doing partial builds, MR JARs, JDK API stubbing, including
> dependency items that cannot be included in any other build phase or
> execution, etc.
> This enhancement and pull request are to request the addition of a
> {{additionalCompilePathItems}} property in CompilerMojo or
> AbstractCompilerMojo which includes additional filesystem paths in the
> compilation class path.
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