In my experience these problems are more often caused by bad test infrastructure or handle leaks in production or test code. I had to spend a lot of time for example rewriting how the maven-indexer tests worked because it randomly failed for me on Win7. After isolating the files into temp folder, this stopped happening.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Kristian Rosenvold <kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have something like 5 accepted answers on StackOverflow regarding this > issue now - all popping up with the wildest (and totally different) set > of symptoms but always the same solution. It seems like it's time to > issue a warning about this on users/mojo, since it affects all 64bit jvm > users and probably also 32 bit users with large numbers of modules. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4936367/i-am-experiencing-random-maven-build-failures-when-building-on-windows-7-is-this/4938162#4938162 > > I don't know if there really is any tradition for issuing warnings, but > the broader transition from 32->64 bit JVM's mean that a lot of people > will be getting intermittent problems building older projects that "used > to build fine" and it basically requires the projects in question to > upgrade their plugins. And it somehow makes maven look bad IMO. > > WDYT ? > > Kristian > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
