[MSHARED-763] Include a dependency change detection.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: maven-shared-incremental
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Liwae Lamaa
• Created: 09/Oct/18 15:17
• Updated: 04/Feb/22 09:48
• Resolved: 04/Feb/22 09:48

Description

Currently, maven incremental compilation does not detect dependency change.

Sample scenario:

• Project A depends on Project B.
• Project B is recompiled.
• Project A should detect this change and recompile. (which is not the case currently)
• If B recompilation includes changing an interface, we expect A to recompile and fail accordingly. 

A fix was already performed on maven-compiler-plugin, but it was never merged. 

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-278 

After recent discussion with rfscholte, he decided that the fix should rather be in maven-shared-incremental. I have performed the implementation for the fix in maven-shared-incremental, and I will be forking the project for that.

PS: The change include minor change in the maven-compiler-plugin for it to take effect.

Issue Links

• is fixed by: MCOMPILER-474 Dependent modules are not recompiled if we run the "package" goal
• relates to: MCOMPILER-278 Incremental build does not track inter-module dependencies.
• relates to: MCOMPILER-368 package-info.java always triggers recompilation of module
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1