Thanks for the pointer to that conversation! Andreas described exactly my issue in a much clearer and more concise way.
For now, test-jars seem to be the best path forward in spite of the drawbacks. I'm considering writing a plugin to prototype the "stubs" approach that I described. On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 3:41 PM Andy Feldman <an...@wealthfront.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 12:15 PM Brandon Mintern <mint...@everlaw.com> > wrote: > > > Maybe one of these—or a better alternative—is already possible? I feel > like > > I must be missing something. Is something wrong with the way I'm > > structuring my projects? Does Maven already provide a way to achieve this > > out-of-the-box? Is there a plugin that provides something like the > "stubs" > > functionality? > > > > There was some discussion of this issue on this list a year ago as well: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6bfcf85aa7fd2b9a02a3f2513b9e10f1141b9102fda2bfc533d02379%40%3Cusers.maven.apache.org%3E > > The conclusion was also that there's no great way to accomplish this. I > think one good way to fix this issue would be to have Maven resolve > test-scoped dependencies transitively when you depend on test-jars, but > perhaps there's a good reason why that's not practical or not a good idea. > > -- > Andy Feldman >
