For those who work on Win7, a pretty equivalent batch script: https://gist.github.com/pcompieta/0b202e9ce57e490c84c4
Unfortunately, i found no pull request at the moment to test it as a whole (#22 is open but already committed to master), but i tried all pieces separately and it should work as expected - feedbacks are welcome. Hope it helps Paolo Compieta On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@takari.io> wrote: > Hi, > > There have been a lot of great patches for Maven core recently which is a > pleasant surprise. Unfortunately it's not readily apparent to contributors > what is required to accept a patch into core. Not only must the unit tests > pass, but the integration tests must pass as well. Our integration tests > catch most things and we're in a state where much of what should be tested > in the unit tests are only captured in the integration tests. This is not a > horrible thing in and of itself but it makes it fairly time consuming to > test for non-core developers. I don't think most people even know we have > an integration test suite or where they are. > > While not perfect, until we have automation to validate changes, I created > a shell script to help those making changes to core more easily see if > their changes have broken anything: > > https://gist.github.com/jvanzyl/16da25976f8ad27293fa > > If you have made a pull request, this script will apply your PR as a patch > to master, build Maven and then use the just-built Maven to run the > integration tests. If this script succeeds it becomes an order of magnitude > easier to review the change knowing nothing is broken. This is not to say > your patch will be immediately accepted if everything passes but it helps > contributors to know nothing is broken which makes looking at a patch far > more appealing to the core developers. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > http://twitter.com/takari_io > --------------------------------------------------------- > > A party which is not afraid of letting culture, > business, and welfare go to ruin completely can > be omnipotent for a while. > > -- Jakob Burckhardt > > > > > > > > > >
