There are a number of pitfalls with test jars. My entirely personal suggestion is this: any time you are tempted to put a test jar configuration into a POM, just go and make a new, ordinary, project with the shared test code in it, and use it with <scope>test</scope>. You won't regret it.
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Stephen Connolly < [email protected]> wrote: > -DskipTests only skips running the tests not building the test-jar > > On 3 September 2010 09:58, Andrew Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > The problem is not that we're skipping the tests. I really don't want to > > run > > the tests... but I do want the jar:test-jar to still run and build... > > moduleA-0.0.0-test.jar so that other module <dependencies> still resolve > > this. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Stephen Connolly < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > and you don't need the =true for -DskipTests > > > > > > On 3 September 2010 08:17, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Stephen Connolly > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > just use "-DskipTests" as that will skip running the tests but not > > > > compiling > > > > > or packaging them... oh and it's shorter than its alias > > > > > "-Dmaven.skip.test.exec=true" as well as the bigger skip that you > are > > > > using > > > > > "-Dmaven.skip.test=true" > > > > > > > > Whoops. > > > > If I had read our internal wiki with this help hints I would have > read: > > > > > > > > Skip Running Tests > > > > Run maven with -DskipTests=true, e.g.: > > > > mvn install -DskipTests=true > > > > (Dont use maven.test.skip as this doesn't generate the test-jar) > > > > > > > > Apologies. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
