On 24 Jul 2003, David Crossley wrote:
> Stephan Michels wrote: > > > The only testcase, which depends on the deprecated package is the > > ResolverImplTestCase, I think. I don't know the status of the > > Resolver, but I see that parts of it went into the xmlutil package of > > Excalibur. > > > > So, perhaps someone can throw light on?! > > The entity-resolver testcases were some of the earliest testcases for > Cocoon. They helped a lot (and still do help) to test cross-platform > issues. Many thanks to Berni Huber for them. He did warn us at the time > that they would be hard to maintain. > > Now the entity resolver components have moved to Avalon. Cocoon makes > direct use of it via Excalibur. The testcases still use the old classes, > merely because they have not been updated following the move. > > I think that it would be good to re-implement those testcases over at > Avalon beside their code. However, i do not have time for that at the > moment. We can hopefully get them from the Cocoon CVS Attic when needed. > > Do we still need the entity-resolver testcases in Cocoon? I think that > things are stable now in the 2.1 ... can you use the Catalog Entity > Resolver sample (if the first sample renders a page then okay) > and see the test document from the page at: > http://localhost:8888/docs/installing/tests.html > and run 'build test' okay? > > I can on Linux, so i am +0.9 for the removal of the testcases. > (The fractional bid is only because i cannot help.) > > There are other filesystem testcases which would be good to keep. Okay, thank you for the explaination. So, then we should move the testcase to the repository of Excalibur. Stephan.
