Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-27 Thread Peter Donald
At 12:10 28/2/01 +1100, Peter Donald wrote: At 07:50 27/2/01 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: GNUs stance is never to compromise which means that the only way for APL to fit in is to remove advertising/name clauses which is unfortunately where one of Apaches strengths are I suspect that that clause

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-27 Thread Peter Donald
At 09:26 27/2/01 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: I suspect that that clause is not the core issue. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-August/msg00207.html I suspect intention and reality are different. You need to read Brian's words carefully. There is an asymmetry here which may not

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-27 Thread Jon Stevens
on 2/27/01 4:09 PM, "Peter Donald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It ain't matter what the ASF permits as the GPL does not permit it ;) Then don't use the GPL. (round and round and round and round) -jon -- If you come from a Perl or PHP background, JSP is a way to take your pain to new levels.

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-27 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 11:15 27/2/01 +0100, Alex Fernndez wrote: Probably you have a stronger case here, but I'd like to know the opinion of the PMC on the subject, if they think it's worthwhile. Would you accept dual

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-27 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Sam Ruby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip IANAL, nor do I play one on TV. But I have seen quite a few good people try to resolve what appears on the surface to be a deceptively simply issue, and fail. Significant attempts have been made, but

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-27 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Sam Ruby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip GNUs stance is never to compromise which means that the only way for APL to fit in is to remove advertising/name clauses which is unfortunately where one of Apaches strengths are I suspect that that

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-23 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on 2/22/01 2:58 PM, "Kevin A. Burton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is worth while to make the argument that as long as it is *either* GPL or APL the license can still be under Apache. Why??? You

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-23 Thread Peter Donald
At 09:54 23/2/01 +0100, Ceki Glc wrote: Sure. A license to be worth the electrons it's written on must be enforceable. Who is going to do the enforcing? In the GPL/APL case there are two bodies involved, the FSF and the ASF. Say product X is dual GPL/APLed but it breaches both the GPL terms and

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-23 Thread Alex Fernández
Hi folks. "Kevin A. Burton" wrote: ... the truth is somewhere in between. I think Dual Licensing solves the issue. You get your BSD and I get my GPL :) :) :) It's rather a lose-lose situation. You lose control over the derivatives if I want, and/or you lose credit if I choose. Alex.

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-23 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 20:07 23.02.2001 +1100, Peter Donald wrote: At 09:54 23/2/01 +0100, Ceki Glc wrote: Sure. A license to be worth the electrons it's written on must be enforceable. Who is going to do the enforcing? In the GPL/APL case there are two bodies involved, the FSF and the ASF. Say product X is dual

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-22 Thread Jon Stevens
on 2/22/01 2:58 PM, "Kevin A. Burton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is worth while to make the argument that as long as it is *either* GPL or APL the license can still be under Apache. Why??? You can still use the APL as much as you want... the only thing we are allowing is that now

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-22 Thread Peter Donald
At 05:14 22/2/01 -0800, Jon Stevens wrote: No offense Kevin, but that is a really bad argument to state in this camp. :-) The simple reason being that people in the GPL camp CAN use and distribute our software without any real restrictions. Nope they can't ;) APL is not BSDL and in fact GNU

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-22 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 17:14 22.02.2001 -0800, Jon Stevens wrote: on 2/22/01 2:58 PM, "Kevin A. Burton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is worth while to make the argument that as long as it is *either* GPL or APL the license can still be under Apache. Why??? You can still use the APL as much as you

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-22 Thread Peter Donald
At 02:32 23/2/01 +0100, Ceki Glc wrote: Absolutely agree. However, a good portion of the world does not. We should strive to accommodate both camps. Could anyone explain what dual GPL/APL licensing really means? Thanks in advance, Ceki In terms of Apache it means the value of the Apache name is

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-22 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Peter, Thanks for your reply. My question was really about the logical meaning of dual licensing. For example, assume that the GPL has requirements G1, G2, Gn and the APL has requirements A1, A2, ..., Am, does dual licensing mean: 1) All of G1, G2, .., Gn, A1, A2, ..., Am must be satisfied.

RE: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-22 Thread Green, Alan
PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal Peter, Thanks for your reply. My question was really about the logical meaning of dual licensing. For example, assume that the GPL has requirements G1, G2, Gn and the APL has requirements A1, A2, ..., Am, does dual

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-21 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on 2/11/01 1:15 PM, "Doug Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The point being that: It doesn't matter that JUnit doesn't do what you want. The fact of the matter is that instead of creating yet another

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-21 Thread Jon Stevens
on 2/21/01 10:05 PM, "Kevin A. Burton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The goals are to move it back under Apache as long as we can keep the dual LGPL/APL License. Kevin Sorry. That won't happen (as far as I know). The ASF board would never go for it. -jon -- If you come from a Perl or PHP

RE: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Downey
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal on 2/12/01 12:38 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Why didn't I start working wit

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-19 Thread Jon Stevens
on 2/19/01 7:45 AM, "Ted Husted" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what he would like to see is a message that starts with "I proposed these changes to the JUnit group, but they weren't interested. Is this something we could do instead?" -Ted. Yea, at least someone hears me correctly. -jon

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-15 Thread Peter Donald
At 04:06 10/2/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I propose a project for testing infrastructure, that covers the needs of unit testing, stress testing, performance testing, negative testing (i.e. testing of error conditions), integration testing, and error logging and reporting. Stress and

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-15 Thread Peter Donald
At 11:52 11/2/01 -0800, Jon Stevens wrote: So, your opinion on JUnit is based on a quote on their website and a quick glance at it? Give me a break dude. This is exactly the type of mindset that I despise. People need to start to learn to work together instead of constantly re-inventing each

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-12 Thread Rob Leland
Why not use J2EEUnit for serverside testing ? It is built on top of JUnit. It also is hosted SourceForge. HttpUnit is only appropiate for client side testing. The frameworks are geared for different audiences. In this case J2EE would probably be more appropiate. -Rob

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-12 Thread Jon Stevens
on 2/12/01 12:38 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Why didn't I start working with JUnit instead of creating our own testing environment?" No. My statement really is: Why don't you look to see if you can work with the JUnit community to extend JUnit to do

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-12 Thread Ovidiu Predescu
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:42:38 -0800, Jon Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2/12/01 12:38 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Why didn't I start working with JUnit instead of creating our own testing environment?" No. My statement really is: Why

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Russell
* Ovidiu Predescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : I believe we should look at the merits of his framework before discussing how or whether it can or should be integrated with JUnit. Your approach of one size fits all doesn't always work. I totally agree, and as the original 'cause' of this

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-11 Thread Ceki Gülcü
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal on 2/10/01 1:06 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have analyzed JUnit an

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-11 Thread Kief Morris
Doug Davis typed the following on 06:56 AM 2/11/2001 -0500 From the junit.org website: JUnit is a regression testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. It is used by the developer who implements unit tests in Java. But from by quick glances at JUnit what struck me was that it

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-11 Thread Doug Davis
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal on 2/11/01 9:10 AM, "Doug Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kief wrote: Maybe you could write a non-programming abstraction layer for JUnit: something which takes XML input (which can be generated by a GUI i

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-11 Thread Doug Davis
ED] cc: Subject: Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal on 2/11/01 1:15 PM, "Doug Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (John, combined response to your two notes): JON. Please spell my name correctly. :-) I didn't just read that one line on the Web Site - but I was using it as an examp

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-11 Thread Sam Ruby
Jon Stevens wrote: I will try one more time before I ask Sam to go down to your office an explain it to you. I've been to his office. Suffice it to say that he has about as thick of a head as, well, some of the people around here. ;-) Lets use Sam as an example here: [snip] Good example,