Well, which is it?

January 14th, 2008

I’ve been working on compiling JIRA plugins lately, with maven-2.

And I see this go scrolling by:

[WARNING] *** CHECKSUM FAILED - Error retrieving checksum file for webwork/jars/webwork-30Apr07-jiratld.jar - IGNORING

In that single line, I get confused, as there are 4 hot words right there.

  1. WARNING: Hey, something bad happened, but it’s not super bad.
  2. FAILED: Well, crap, it just plain did not work.
  3. ERROR: Yep, it still didn’t work, and that’s a bad bad thing.
  4. IGNORING: But apparently I shouldn’t care too much, because maven surely isn’t giving it much thought anymore.

Should I take corrective action? Is there anything I can do? I got all hyped up about being warned of the error of failing, only to be told it’s no big deal.

Of course, I had to babysit the first build like a crack-baby delivered in the 2nd trimester. Maven attempts to download the world from Atlassian’s repository which likes to take a nap after downloading a dozen .pom files.  I’d have to go Control-C all over it, and start over, to get a running start at the next dozen .poms.  Fun!

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2 Responses to “Well, which is it?”

  1. 1 foo
    January 14th, 2008 at 1:32 am

    Sounds like you are downloading British people :)

  2. 2 Jonathan Nolen
    January 14th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    Hey Bob,

    Sorry about all the maven troubles. We’ve been feeling the pain ourselves. We’re working with the Archiva guys to try to fix the maven proxy timeouts you’re seeing. Thanks for sticking with it.

    Cheers,
    Jonathan

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