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Improvement
Closed
Major
Description
It would really be nice if there was more control over what WARNING messages that Maven spits out by default. When building off of a clean repo, a bunch of {{[WARNING] Unable to get resource ...}} messages litter the console output... which really makes it hard to see what is actually going on.
I'd like mvn to not show those by default, and have a flag to enable them if needed... kinda like the -W flag on gcc.
IMO these WARNING messages are only useful about 5% of the time when strange dependency problems pop up... it would be better IMO if for the remaining 95% that mvn didn't complain so much about stuff that is not really a problem.
The biggest offender I know of is:
I put the "Downloading: ..." line in here too, since they seem to go hand in hand. Would be nice to only show "Downloading: ..." when its actually there to download, else log a DEBUG about "Attempting to download: ..."
This one does not show up much, but more often than not its not a problem:
This is a lame duck warning (should not log this, since the expected prefix matches what's there)
Some places the ^^^ warning actually shows a problem, though with all the "Unable to get resource" I tend to miss them.
And then a few of these:
[WARNING] Artifact org.apache.xbean:xbean-finder:jar:2.8:runtime retains local scope 'runtime' overriding broader scope 'compile' given by a dependency. If this is not intended, modify or remove the local scope.I've yet to run into a situation where I wanted to change the scope based on this message, usually the scope was correct. So its a little bit more noise to sort though.
But, the biggest one is the first... I have ~2k of these messages in a Geronimo server build. If nothing else I'd like to see that log become a DEBUG message. And the WARNING about the plugin prefix should be removed unless the prefix configured doesn't actually match what is expected.
[WARNING] Artifact org.apache.xbean:xbean-finder:jar:2.8:runtime retains local scope 'runtime' overriding broader scope 'compile' given by a dependency. If this is not intended, modify or remove the local scope.