Well, we can if we want to - we have a repository which can be used for such artifacts. So you advice to make a *local* copy of 2.5-SNAPSHOT and use it until official 2.5 is released?
Thanks, 2009/10/12 Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com> > since Apache Cayenne cant just fork its own copy of surefire plugin, i > think releasing 2.5 is badly needed. > > -D > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Barrie Treloar <baerr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Andrey
