On 11 Aug, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: > > On 08/11/2016 01:42 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: >> Hi >> >> If you've been checking the buildbots you'll see that all who don't use >> --without-junit are currently broken in ./configure due to junit being too >> old. This is unlikely to change, as the buildslaves are running Ubuntu >> 10.04 which doesn't have newer versions of Junit available in apt. >> >> This is part of a bigger problem, which is that Junit's dependencies >> changed multiple times in the 4.x releases, which is why I changed >> configure.ac to need at least 4.11 (the maximum being 4.12). >> >> Instead of needing a correct system Junit version to run tests during the >> build, and having to worry about having correct system versions of Hamcrest >> on the classpath, should we not rather treat them like external >> dependencies and download specific versions during ./bootstrap? It's under >> 300 kB for both, and the bvt/fvt/pvt tests already download their own copy. >> >> Damjan >> > > This would be OK with me. What version of the jre does Junit 4.11 > require? I can't find information about this on the junit site > --http://junit.org/junit4/ > > Right now, we're still spec'd at jdk 1.6 for everything except Windows, > but IMO we should advance to 1.7 .
That sounds good to me as well, but are there any issues with installing a newer jdk on older Linux distributions that we still support? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
