I think somewhere in the child POM or its parent hierarchy the plugin
version must be set to 2.2, perhaps outside of pluginManagement. Is
that the case?

- Brett

2008/8/27 Rintcius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to check the used version of the surefire plugin.
> I got:
>> mvn help:describe -Dplugin=surefire
>
> ...
> [INFO] [help:describe]
> [INFO] Plugin: 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.2'
> -----------------------------------------------
> Group Id:  org.apache.maven.plugins
> Artifact Id: maven-surefire-plugin
> Version:     2.2
> Goal Prefix: surefire
>
> However, when I run:
>> mvn help:effective-pom
>
> I get
> ...
>    <pluginManagement>
>      <plugins>
>        <plugin>
>          <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
>          <version>2.4.3</version>
>          <configuration>
>            <testFailureIgnore>true</testFailureIgnore>
>            <includes>
>              <include>**/*Test.java</include>
>            </includes>
>            <format>html</format>
>          </configuration>
>        </plugin>
>      </plugins>
>    </pluginManagement>
> ...
>
>
> My pom structure is quite simple: just a parent pom.xml with the
> pluginmanagement section as above and a child pom using that. I have tested
> with both maven 2.0.8 and 2.0.9.
>
>
> The surefire version that I intend to be using is 2.4.3 (just like it is
> returned by help:effective-pom) and I guess this version is being used
> although I am not 100% sure of it.
> But why is help:describe returning something different? Is this a bug or am
> I missing something?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Rintcius
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