Actually I have done this and committed it... Of course, it can be
undone if we find a better way, but I'm certain that we won't find a
solution that stretches the limits of IDE-s and such less.


Monday, May 15, 2017, 11:43:48 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote:

> We got this problem that freemarker-core/test defines some useful
> utilities, and when we do stuff like freemarker-servlet or later
> freemarker-dom, we want to use some of them. But normally you can't
> declare dependency on the test classes of a project. So we have a
> freemarker-test-utils project to address this. Both
> freemarker-core/test and freemarker-servlet/test depend on that.
> Problem is, it can't depend on freemarker-core (because then you have
> a circular dependency), but we need stuff like Template and
> Configuration as we have some FreeMarker-specific testing utilities
> (run templates and assert its output), also ideally we would use some
> utilities from freemarker-core (instead of duplicating them in
> freemarker-test-utils).
>
> So I think we will have to remove the tests from freemarker-core, and
> reorganize stuff like this:
>
> freemarker-core-test
>   depends on freemaker-test-utils
>     depends on freemarker-core
>
> And then freemarker-servlet/test and freemarker-dom/test can just
> depends on freemaker-test-utils, so no need for
> freemarker-servlet-test and freemarker-dom-test. Only freemarker-core
> suffers this thing, where you have to move the tests of the project to
> a separate project (though partially we already has that with
> freemarker-core-java8-test). (And I hope coveralls.io and such can
> handle this.)
>

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany

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