[jira] Commented: (MNG-3043) Allow 'mvn test' to work with test-jar dependencies in a reactor

["Basil James Whitehouse III (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Basil James Whitehouse III commented on MNG-3043:
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This also seems to affect the Release plugin when performing a release:prepare.

> Allow 'mvn test' to work with test-jar dependencies in a reactor
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>
>                 Key: MNG-3043
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3043
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Dependencies, Reactor and workspace
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.1
>            Reporter: Kenney Westerhof
>             Fix For: Reviewed Pending Version Assignment
>
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> Basically the issue is demonstrated by MNG-2045, but instead of running 'mvn install', you run 'mvn test'.
> Test classes of dependencies should be resolved from the reactor, just as main classes, if there's no archive available.
> I'm not sure how to go about this. Specifying a dependency on something with <type>test-jar</type>,
> and having that dependency declare the maven-jar-plugin with the 'test-jar' goal is insufficient.
> Perhaps we can just add a standard classifier that maven is aware of, in this case 'tests'. The jar packaging
> would export this as a known classifier, and tells maven how it contributes to what classpath.
> Since test sources are a first class citizen, just as main sources are (they have the same phases, same
> elements in the pom (but differently named)).
> It seems logical to me that somehow the test classes should be made available to dependencies,
> if they declare a dependency with classifier 'tests'.

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