Allow 'mvn test' to work with test-jar dependencies in a reactor
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Key: MNG-3043
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3043
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Dependencies, Reactor and workspace
Affects Versions: 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.1
Reporter: Kenney Westerhof
Basically the issue is demonstrated by MNG-2045, but instead of running 'mvn
install', you run 'mvn test'.
Test classes of dependencies should be resolved from the reactor, just as main
classes, if there's no archive available.
I'm not sure how to go about this. Specifying a dependency on something with
<type>test-jar</type>,
and having that dependency declare the maven-jar-plugin with the 'test-jar'
goal is insufficient.
Perhaps we can just add a standard classifier that maven is aware of, in this
case 'tests'. The jar packaging
would export this as a known classifier, and tells maven how it contributes to
what classpath.
Since test sources are a first class citizen, just as main sources are (they
have the same phases, same
elements in the pom (but differently named)).
It seems logical to me that somehow the test classes should be made available
to dependencies,
if they declare a dependency with classifier 'tests'.
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