On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Andrey Razumovsky <razumovsky.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > While enchancing our Hudson builds here at Apache Cayenne, we got bitten by > SUREFIRE-551. It is now fixed, but doesn't exist in any released version. > We've found the snapshot in http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/. So our > questions are: > 1. Is 2.5-SNAPSHOT stable enough? > 2. Can we rely on http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/ repository in our > builds (i.e. aren't there any plans to delete snapshot from that repo)? > 3. When official 2.5 will be released? > > Thanks, > Andrey >
For 1) & 2) NEVER rely on snapshots for your builds. There are a number of problems with using the snapshot repository. 1) You can't select which snapshots to use, it is all or nothing. So if you aren't following best practice and locking down plugin versions then you will automatically start using snapshot versions when you didnt want to. 2) Snapshots get rebuilt so it may work one day and fail the next. I wrote up the steps I use for this scenario http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Patching+Maven+Plugins Essentially you take a copy of the source and build a local version of the plugin. If you use a suitable numbering scheme when the official release arrives it will replace your patched version. I can't answer 3) for you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
