What steps will reproduce the problem?

Try to run a specification from idea

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.jetbrains.plugins.scala.testingSupport.specs.JavaSpecsNotifier.runStarting(Lscala/Function0;)V at org.specs.runner.NotifierRunner$$anonfun$report$1.apply

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 1.6.7

This obviously happened because the parameter of runStarting was changed to be by-name. You could argue that instead the idea runner should be changed but that would probably introduce issues for everyone running old versions of specs.

I fixed this issue by having a different implementation for the sbt testrunner which is using the NotifierRunner as well. Please find the changes in the latest SNAPSHOT version.

Thanks, Eric for the quick fix. I tried it and it seems to work.

For what is worth, I had filed the following:

http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/SCL-2711

Is there a plan to release 1.6.8 relatively soon? If so, then I will close that issue in the jetbrains tracker because if they fix it, it will break it again!

I did the unthinkable, I redeployed a version of 1.6.7 with the fix because it was close to useless without.

Oh, I see. Hmm, this is going to cause some weird support issues as whoever had already updated to 1.6.7 and has not seen this will have different behaviour than the ones that have updated to 1.6.7 after that.

And the fix is not nice either (e.g. I have to tell others at work to delete their dependency manually). In these cases, I suggest releasing a 1.6.7.1 or something like that.

You're certainly right.

I just gave an explanation on the mailing list of why I did it, but seeing your comment and thinking about it, I think that next time I'll go for:

• a 1.6.7.1 version
• a note on the website explaining the situation and giving the relevant links if I can't go for a full release

I don't want to be a messenger of more bad news, but the Maven central repo still has the first version of 1.6.7 you deployed:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/scala-tools/testing/specs_2.8.1/1.6.7/

I don't think they allow non-snapshot repos to be updated after the fact. I suggest releasing 1.6.7.1 if you can.

I just patched IDEA to work with 1.6.6 and 1.6.7. No need to change Specs.

Thanks!

Jason, you're so fast, I should have waited!

Just for my knowledge can you tell how you fixed it?

http://git.jetbrains.org/?p=idea/scala-plugin.git;a=commitdiff;h=c6f3c024bf553053794ffc2a28345f34c4ecb386;hp=242948cb2ba20b9acb7abf8179e42fdd2b82e8c6