You can remove the references (I added them). Pascal. jabber/gtalk: [email protected] msn: [email protected]
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 21:56, Jonathan Pryor <[email protected]> wrote: > I was looking into the licensing of > Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll, and wasn't > comforted by what I found: > > > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/32384366-b668-4f18-99eb-9c67f7eef233/ > > Just in case anyone reads this - I called them, and since the unit testing > portion of visual studio is not available as a separate download, it is > licensed as part of the Visual Studio product. It can then be distributed > under an ISV license -- as though you were buying and distributing Visual > Studio. > > Which by my reading requires a Visual Studio license be present in order to > use the assembly. Thus, it's a Bad Idea to have a copy of this in svn, as > it (1) allows Express users to use the assembly (and Express users aren't > licensed to use this assembly), and (2) allows #Develop and MonoDevelop > users to use the assembly (which isn't Visual Studio *at all*). > > Thus, do we actually need this assembly? Would it be safe to remove this > assembly and instead depend upon NUnit for unit tests (which we're already > largely doing anyway)? > > (I'm particularly interested/concerned as the DbMetal unit tests currently > depend upon this assembly, and I don't want to copy the assembly into Mono > to use the DbMetal tests within Mono. I can certainly add #if > MONO_STRICTlogic to the appropriate tests to strip out the QualityTools > usage, but > before I start adding more conditional logic I thought I'd see if it was > needed at all...) > > Thanks, > - Jon > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DbLinq" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dblinq?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
