I believe that m-surefire-p is a plugin that Maven locks down the version for through the super-POM. You could check this yourself very easily in the effective-pom (help:effective-pom). However, best-practice is to always lock down the version of used plugins yourself.
/Anders On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 16:40, Chris Audley <[email protected]> wrote: > I spent some time banging my head this morning because I couldn't get > the systemPropertyVariables element in the maven-surefire-plugin > configuration to work. After a while I realized that Maven was > defaulting to maven-surefire-plugin 2.4.3 and I was trying to use a > feature introduced in 2.5. > > OK, so I can update pluginManagement to pull in surefire 2.6, or I can > fall back to the older systemProperties element. > > My question is, why is Maven still using 2.4.3? Is it just that maven > hasn't been updated recently, or is there some kind of issue with > using 2.5 or above? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
