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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-4726:
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Now that Java 6 is the base level on trunk, I'd expect JUnit 4 to work.
> Investigate updating Junit version required for Derby build and test
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> Key: DERBY-4726
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4726
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build tools, Test
> Affects Versions: 10.7.1.1
> Reporter: Kathey Marsden
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> The derby build documentation BUILDING.html says the derby build requires
> JUnit 3.8.2. Junit 3.8.2 is no longer available at junit.org but can be
> downloaded from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/junit/files/
> At a minimum we need to update the download references but it would be good
> to move ahead to JUnit 4 if possible., because who knows how long 3.8 will be
> generally available.
> Knut mentioned the following useful history.
> - It used to be that Derby wouldn't build with JUnit 4, but now it seems to,
> perhaps because we require JDK 1.5 in the build.
> - He thinks that Junit 3.8.1 is still required for some small device
> platforms, because even 3.8.2 doesn't work there
> - We recommend 3.8.2 in BUILDING.html is was that it was better on reporting
> errors. In particular, failures in tearDown() don't mask failures in the test
> case (they did 3.8.1)
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