Hi Ted, You made a good point, I think my solution could be building the jars from source and then using it for testing.
Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 10:02 AM Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Willem, > > This issue of embedded binaries for testing purposes has come up before. > Examples include network intercepts for testing malware detection or class > files for a byte code manipulator. The network files can't easily be > recreated since they were observed in the wild and the class files might > have been produced by a specific (possibly broken) compiler version that > isn't widely available. > > The key question is whether these binaries are derived from some source > that could be compiled instead of distributing the binary objects. Failing > that, can the provenance and justification for the binary object be > described? > > > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 6:49 PM Willem Jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Thanks Justin for the clarification. I guess the policy imply the > > source materials cannot have any binary. > > But what if the binary is only for testing, which cannot be part of > > the released software. > > From my point of view, we don't need to modify the source materials > > testing binary to do the software release as it is not a part of the > > binary release of the software. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Regards, > > > > Willem Jiang > > > > Twitter: willemjiang > > Weibo: 姜宁willem > > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 2:41 PM Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > [1]http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#what > > > > > > It’s explained in that link there i.e. "The Apache Software Foundation > > produces open source software. All releases are in the form of the source > > materials needed to make changes to the software being released”. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Justin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
