" a digital Ouroboros of disaster" -- that made my day.

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Jesse Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You inspired me to do quick search for "outputDirectory" in all the POMs and 
>> I found this little bugger in all the projects' common parent pom:
>>
>> <reporting>
>>        <outputDirectory />
>> </reporting>
>>
>> Not sure what purpose it served - but once removed, the projects behave as 
>> expected in Maven 3 :).
>
> Glad you figured it out. Having an empty outputDirectory must make it
> default to the modules working directory. Then your clean would
> convert the build into a digital Ouroboros of disaster.
>
> Maybe Maven 3, in its aim to better inform users about code smells,
> should warn users of this perilous condition.
>
> -Jesse
>
>
> --
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> that can read binary and those that can not.
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