[jbosstools-dev] Proposed change to JBoss Tools' parent pom -- better support for SWTBot UI testing on OSX Jenkins slave

Currently, the parent pom [1] includes a profile which is enabled automagically on OSX when java.vendor.url=http://www.apple.com. This simply sets the following systemProperties property: -d32 -Dosgi.arch=x86 -XstartOnFirstThread However, this appears to be ignored/overwritten by Surefire when running tests. So, it's been proposed [2] that we instead use a new property, platformSystemProperties, which is null on windows/linux but takes this value on OSX: -d32 -Dosgi.arch=x86 -XstartOnFirstThread Before I make this change and break any of our consumers by removing the old systemProperties value in favour of the new one, I wanted to know if this was a Very Bad Idea from anyone's point of view, or in fact a simple tweak that affects no one (but in fact makes life easier for QE). I'll make this change in trunk some time next week, unless someone voices a concern in the JIRA [2] below. Thanks! [1] https://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/build/parent/pom.xml [2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11666 -- Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio http://nick.divbyzero.com