On 11/14/2014 07:23 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On 14/11/14 21:08, David ‘Bombe’ Roden wrote: >> Hey there, >> >> so, I was writing a unit test for Fred and I was wondering which >> version of JUnit 4 we are using. >> >> If we already have decided which JUnit version to use we should >> really document that somewhere in the source tree, e.g. in >> README.building.md. >> >> If we have not yet decided on a version of JUnit 4 (except for >> “some version of JUnit 4”) I would like to recommend version 4.11. >> Reasons include, but are not limited to: >> >> - It’s the latest non-beta version. >> - It comes in a single variety only; previous versions come in a >> “junit” and a “junit-dep” package which, when used together with >> the Hamcrest matchers, caused lots confusion because depending on >> the JUnit version one or both packages contained a copy of the >> matchers. > It would be nice if it worked out of the box on debian without having > to install third party jars. Historically lots of devs have used > debian, and IMHO several still do.
jessie just got frozen [0] and has 4.11; I'm tempted to call that good enough. [1] >> Also, I would like to add two more packages as dependencies for our >> tests: >> >> - The aforementioned Hamcrest matchers (version 1.3 of the >> hamcrest-all package) which are immensely valuable for writing >> clear tests. >> - The wonderful mockito library which allows to mock dependency >> objects during testing. I have not used later versions than 1.9.5 >> but the changelog does not imply that more recent versions should >> pose any problems. > Are these available as official packages on common distros? Yes. [2][3] > Anything that is only available unofficially is effectively adding a > (build-) dependency on Maven. Doing so would solve a lot of > problems, but there are fundamental build security issues with Maven > that are hard to resolve efficiently. Official distribution packages > don't use Maven - they convert to ant build files and build > separately. [0] https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/junit4 [2] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libhamcrest-java [3] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libmockito-java
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