Gary and I have been working last Friday on cleaning up the Resolver  
class and our use of various System properties when using the config  
modules under test and live environment.

What it boils down to is that we made the Resolver (and related  
classes) be ignorant that there is a test scenario at all.

This means that references to System properties like  
tc.tests.configuration.modules and tc.tests.configuration.modules.url  
are no longer used.

By default config-modules are expected to be found in the default  
modules repository, ie: the base directory + "/modules" --- In our  
kit, the base directory would be wherever Terracotta was installed  
($TC_INSTALL_DIR), and during tests this is the 'build/' directory.

Additional repository locations should be configured by the test that  
needs them via code or the test's config.

With our Maven plugins there is no kit, and that it could execute in  
either the live or test scenario (as in the case of the Geronimo  
plugin) - so the $TC_INSTALL_DIR property may or may not exist and  
the Resolver can't correctly assume the location of the modules  
repository.

Here's what we propose:
We add a new TC property called l1.configbundles.repos (the name  
could change) - this is a comma-separated list of additional  
repository locations that will be tacked on the list of repositories  
used when locating config modules.

This is no different than the l1.configbundles.default property - a  
list of config modules which gets loaded no matter what the current  
scenario is - so it should work across the board and for our Maven  
plugins scenario.

Thoughts?



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