OK, thanks for explaining! A module's tests are supposed to be run only by part of the team. For others not even test dependencies are accessible, so just disabling compiling and executing tests was not enough. Resolved this with a profile and putting dependencies of those tests there.
Kind regards, Stevo. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Olivier Lamy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > 2012/1/17 Stevo Slavić <[email protected]>: > > Hello Maven community, > > > > Why does Maven (3.0.3) resolve test scoped dependencies when tests > > compilation and execution is skipped via maven.test.skip system property? > > That's something will happen with all maven 2.x or 3.x versions. > Why because maven use something generic which is kind of plugin > "metadata" which contains the dependencies "level/scope" needed. > So at this stage when resolving dependencies for the plugin, maven > core doesn't have any idea on any skip or other plugin parameters or > what the plugin does. > > How does it work. > See source > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/surefire/trunk/maven-surefire-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/surefire/SurefirePlugin.java > > You will see an annotation @requiresDependencyResolution test (this > the "metadata). > So maven core only knows he need to resolve dependencies even if the > mojo have a skip or a shutdownMachine :-) parameter > > > > > I'm trying to achieve this by defining a profile with all test scope > > dependencies declared in it only. Profile is activated when > maven.test.skip > > system property is not defined. Would be more precise if I could specify > > activation to be when that property is not defined or is set to false but > > that doesn't seem to be possible (no compound expressions in single > > property, no multiple properties in single activation) or am I missing > > something? > > > > Kind regards, > > Stevo. > > > > -- > Olivier Lamy > Talend: http://coders.talend.com > http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
