Why incremental build is not supported natively by Maven?
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Key: MNG-4885
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4885
Project: Maven 2 & 3
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Vincenzo Mancini
I have a multi-module project with two sub-modules. I compile and package it
without mistakes. The build is complete. Then I make a change in one {{.java}}
file in one of them. And now I'm trying to package the whole project again.
Maven re-runs tests in both two modules, static code analysis in both modules,
etc.
Why so? It's a very ineffective way of building, as far as I understand. Maybe
maven can introduce a mechanism of "dependency discovery" between files. Like:
{noformat}
foo.jar depends on:
abc.java
cde.java
bar.jar depends on:
xxx.java
{noformat}
When there is a change in {{cde.java}} only - maven SHOULD NOT do anything with
{{bar.jar}}. This is how Unix {{make}} utility is working... Thanks.
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