[jboss-dev] Planning to revert

[Paul Gier]

Jason T. Greene wrote:
> 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?
> 

I believe the classpath is still correct even though the snapshots are 
downloaded.  I think part of the problem is the way we're currently using the 
Maven ant tasks with the antrun plugin, and it's something I'm working to fix now.