Hi Benson By "many tests" are you refer to the incident at release plugin 2.5.1, or maven-core IT
Thanks -D On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Benson, > > > > What is your verdict? > > I vote for removing it from the publically facing doc. is there also a > thought of removing it from the code? I guess if someone makes sure > that all our many tests pass without it, fine with me. > > I should explain my passing reference to Aether. > > I wrote a little OSGi utility that uses Aether to fetch some > dependencies, and I wanted it to get mirror definitions out of, well, > $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml. That probably counts as acute sloth on my > part. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > -D > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> I know of two cases where it comes up. > >> > >> 1: some of our own ITs. Those aren't a reason for comprehensive doc. > >> > >> 2: an application I wrote for Aether :-) > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Baptiste Mathus <m...@batmat.net> wrote: > >> > -1 it's a problematic variable, removing it is a good idea IMO, and > >> > changing mvn version is indeed just a matter of updating your path. > >> > > >> > I've been hit many a time by an updated PATH pointing to a different > mvn > >> > version than the one referenced by M2_HOME, which ends with > >> > NoClassDefFoundError or something like that IIRC. > >> > That's why I've personally been advising maven users I encounter to > never > >> > ever set that variable for years. > >> > > >> > Cheers > >> > > >> > 2015-01-27 7:19 GMT+01:00 Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net>: > >> > > >> >> > I would still suggest to make sure its documented somewhere. I > find it > >> >> > incredibly useful to just change M2_HOME to simply switch Maven > >> versions. > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> +1, very useful but I guess it doesn't require the name M2_HOME. > >> >> > >> >> /Anders > >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > manfred > >> >> > > >> >> > Mirko Friedenhagen wrote on 26.01.2015 21:40: > >> >> > > >> >> > > Dan, go ahead, I have not set this variable for years. > >> >> > > > >> >> > > Regards > >> >> > > Mirko > >> >> > > -- > >> >> > > Sent from my mobile > >> >> > > On Jan 27, 2015 5:52 AM, "Dan Tran" <dant...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > > > >> >> > >> Hi, > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> Any objection to remove the need to setup M2_HOME env variable > at > >> >> maven > >> >> > >> download page? > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> Thanks > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> -Dan > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-223 > >> >> > >> > >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net > >> >> Sauvez un arbre, > >> >> Mangez un castor ! > >> >> nbsp;! > >> >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
