[jira] Commented: (SUREFIRE-615) Surefire providers shouldn't need to download old versions of the library

["Stephen Connolly (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Stephen Connolly commented on SUREFIRE-615:
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my preference is the <scope>provided</scope> option, what are other people's thoughts

> Surefire providers shouldn't need to download old versions of the library
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>
>                 Key: SUREFIRE-615
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-615
>             Project: Maven Surefire
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: JUnit 3.x support, Junit 4.x support, Maven Surefire Plugin, TestNG support
>    Affects Versions: 2.5
>            Reporter: Brett Porter
>             Fix For: 2.6
>
>
> currently, the Surefire plugin uses resolveTransitively to obtain the Surefire provider (junit, junit4, junit47, testng). Each of these has a compile time dependency on the library itself to interact with their API.
> This results in downloading older versions as well as the newer one requested by the project (TestNG 5.7, JUnit 4.0, JUnit 3.8.1). There are two possible solutions to this:
> - alter the resolveTranstively method to exclude the artifact that is already available from the project
> - set the dependency to 'provided' in the providers POM

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