[MNG-5199] Return back org.apache.maven.user-settings and org.apache.maven.global-settings properties

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.3
• Component/s: Settings
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Karel Piwko
• Created: 10/Nov/11 08:22
• Updated: 23/Dec/19 11:03

Description

According to discussion at http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Maven-3-support-for-org-apache-maven-user-settings-td3261146.html, I'm sure there is a valid use case for the property:

Imagine following:

mvn -s setting.xml test 

Surefire has no way to pass the path of the settings.xml in the spawned process. If the test in spawned process want to for example access remote repository defined in settings.xml, user has to specify settings.xml path in the test itself.

However, for the following:

mvn -Dorg.apache.maven.user-settings=settings.xml test

This system property can be passed to surefire configuration and propagated to the Surefire spawned process later on.

Having a system property removes duplication of the environment settings.