Or, if you have a windows box, use WinMerge with the 7zip add-in It will allow easy comparison of war, jar and ear files... and you can dive down to see if the class files are the same (even if the date stamps are different)
-Stephen 2009/2/12 Jason van Zyl <jvan...@sonatype.com>: > > On 12-Feb-09, at 8:49 AM, Paul Benedict wrote: > >> Oleg, thank you for volunteering. j/k >> >> My only concern is that building a project successfully does not >> guarantee backwards compatibility. Things like property resolution, >> etc. need to either be eye balled or loaded into an application to >> show it works or bombs. >> > > Mmmm, that's would be where your integration tests kick in. > >> Binaries, sure, maybe that's overkill. But if I can compare the >> target/war-output directory between two builds, that would help :-) >> >> Paul >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Jason van Zyl <jvan...@sonatype.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 11-Feb-09, at 10:28 PM, Oleg Gusakov wrote: >>> >>>> I have a tool that compares resolved dependency lists between Mercury >>>> and >>>> Maven2, not binaries. Will not be hard to modify to add binary >>>> comparison. >>>> >>> >>> There you go, Oleg will check them for you :-) >>> >>>> Paul Benedict wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Does any tool exist that can build a project in Maven 2 and Maven 3 >>>>> and then compare the binaries to see if they are equal? Assuming v3 is >>>>> fully backwards compatible with v2, I hope there would be only >>>>> superficial differences. >>>>> >>>>> Paul >>>>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > jason at sonatype dot com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track > of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget > the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful > groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a > clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as > signs of decline and decay. > > -- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
