Fred Bricon <
fbricon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Igor,
>
>I strongly believe the fix for the regression found in
>
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=388254 (default
>~/.m2/settings.xml
>not picked up on clean workspace) deserves a new m2e 1.2 RC respin.
>
>I believe most users (in an enterprise environment or not) use custom
>settings.xml and that bug breaks a lot of stuff when using either clean
>workspace or workspace not having already manually defined or reloaded
>the
>user settings :
>- lose custom repositories
>- break mirroring
>- break server authentication
>- redownload the internets for user defining a custom local repo
>...
>
>Even though the workaround is trivial (reload user settings in the
>preferences), that information will probably be missed by a majority of
>users and will cause major spikes of complaints on the ML. Unecessary
>1st-level user support is something we (Red Hat) 'd like to avoid, from
>a
>3rd party adopter perspective.
>
>Regards,
>
>Fred Bricon
>
>
>--
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