On 2018-10-28, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2018-10-28, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 18:48, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On 2018-10-28, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote: >>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 18:17, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> On 2018-10-28, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 17:59, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>>>>>> I wonder whether it wouldn't be a good idea to create a separate class >>>>>>> for constants used during testing that lives in ant-testutil rather >>> than >>>>>>> poluting the "magic names" of Ant. >>>>>> The problem is that should such class end up in ant-testutil, it makes >>>>> ant >>>>>> dependent on ant-util and that creates a dependency loop. >>>>> I'm talking about the "magic names" only used in tests. The four >>>>> properties with names that start with TEST_ should not be used inside >>>>> the rest of Ant, are they? >>>> I understand your point. TEST_ properties are only for tests. But, the >>>> tests themselves are a part of Ant core. >>> Are they? I really hope there are no test classes in ant.jar. >>> The constants can be moved to the tests jar of Ant core (where Ant core >>> likely means org.apache.ant:ant in Maven speak) and ant-testutil. All >>> Maven artifacts that are not org.apache.ant:ant can have a test scope >>> dependency on ant-testutil. >> The scope does not matter, should the test constants be in ant-util, there >> will be a dependency of ant on ant-testutil creating a loop. >> Test classes in Ant core won't compile before ant-testutil is compiled and >> packaged, which in turn would require ant to be compiled and packaged. > I guess I need to create a branch to either convince you it is possibel > or convince me that it is not :-) See the branch remove-tests-constants-from-main-tree - actually it's been even easier that I tought as all classes that require the test constants are part of the tests run for the core artifact. If any of the other tests required the constants these other artifacts could have test-scope dependencies on ant-testutil (as testuitl itself only depends on core) so no loop would be created. But this doesn't even seem to be necessary. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
