2012/1/16 Arnaud Héritier <aherit...@gmail.com>: > Thanks a lot for this hard wok Barrie > > yes it was my problem too Robert. > ITs are now very difficult to use/maintain and sadly are covering only the > fact that what we generate is always the same and not that it is working in > eclipse. > As far as I remember this is the larger plugin we have in lines of codes > and also the dirtiest one as it was built from many many contributors > (because of the variety of usages and eclipse versions) > > Since that, I had the chance to switch from eclipse to intellij and it > solved all my issues.
lol. Well what black magic is intellij doing that makes using maven better? There is the option to switch to m2e. I cant do that for some of my projects because they are Eclipse RCP 3.2 projects that are bodge anyway. m-e-p works well enough. Its worse than you summarize because: * it does its own dependency analysis because there was no standard way of exposing that before (refactoring to use aether is an option) * the ITs were built at the time where there was no IT standard * there is support for eclipse-like environments (RAD, etc) which is even harder to maintain * some OSGi support which is using deprecated feature sets and is impossible to maintain because there are no ITs or use cases for it. This list is probably a part of the reason that Jason suggested retiring plugins. (This one is sporadically maintained but it still works as advertised) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org