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

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On May 4, 2012, at 19:04 , Nick Boldt wrote:

> 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.

Correction: This property are overwritten by some pom's and therefore what is in the parent gets
ignored. (nothing specific to surefire actually))
 
> 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

Makes sense and shouldn't harm afaics since its just the same approach as before
but just separating out these settings.

Once QE verified it works for them on Mac then it should be possible to update.
 
> 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).

systemProperties is still there and used so don't think this will actually break anyone - it will
behave the same as before (overriding the systemProperties if set).

But of course now they do get to see both properties so there might be a difference but 
hopefully only to the better.

...and its not just making life easier for QE its good for all ;)

/max