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: 10.7.0.0
Reporter: Kathey Marsden
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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