[jboss-dev] Planning to revert

[Jason T. Greene]

Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:
> On 02/02/2010 11:55 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> On 02/02/2010 10:43 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>> Ales Justin wrote:
>>>>> Apologies for breakage.  I missed an import from my script.
>>>> Ups:
>>>> * http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-development/2010-January/015593.html
>>> Whatever...forgetting an import into repository is WAY different then a
>>> working copy breaking because of how poorly snapshots are used...
>> It way my understanding that snapshots were forbidden in AS trunk.  Has
>> something changed?
> 
> Snapshot dependencies on other modules.  So when you come back the next 
> day and build, is downloads from the snaps repo the other modules, and 
> stuff is out of sync.
> 
> It's a Maven default; I've taken Pete's suggestion (and Paul has talked 
> about this) to set my update policy to "never" and instead only update 
> SNAPSHOTs on an as-needed basis by manually passing in "-U".  Also 
> speeds up my builds as I don't end up checking repos.
> 

To clarify, SNAPSHOTS *are* forbidden

The problem is the way maven handles modules is broken (surprise):
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4326

However, what I am not sure about, is whether the downloaded snapshots 
take precedence in the classpath over the modules.

Paul, should this problem be anything more than gratuitous downloading?

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Jason T. Greene
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