Bernd Fondermann wrote:
The problem is that junit, in the "ant build" aspect, is not a
dependency of James but a dependency of the ant-junit task.
I am not sure that I understand this sentence.
For me, junit is a jar like any jar in lib/ except that it is needed
only in the test classes and thus resides in tools/lib but could very
well be in lib/.
I see the unit test classes as an integral part of the sources, not just
an add-on, even if they don't ship in binary distributions.
Our tests depends on junit: we can automatically download the junit.jar
and build the tests, this is not a problem.
The problem is when you want to run the "junit" task from ant: this is
an ant limitation, and this is why I would like to use something that
does not present this problems (m2).
If you can find a simple solution for that I would be happy to include
it: I pasted the "<get>" code, and as I said there is a classpath issue.
Agreed, the downloading is not a solution as long as we are using ant. I
tried this myself a few weeks ago.
Isn't this "only" a license issue? If we could put junit into svn we
would do it, wouldn't we?
For the current state it is only a license issue.
Btw I still would like to remove all the jars from the repository one
day (the way we did for jspf project).
Since we can't put junit in anyway the whole discussion is somewhat
academic.
What I'd really like to understand more: What is the benefit of removing
ant and the build scripts? Is it just a clean-up or is there a next step
after it? Sorry to re-iterate this topic. I feel like I don't see the
obvious here.
I have ant installed in my machine and already including junit.jar. If I
remove the whole ant stuff but build.xml I'm able to run "ant
run-unit-tests" without downloading/moving anything. If I keep the ant
stuff in the tools/lib folder then ant expects to find junit.jar in the
same folder and does not work (I have to manually copy the jar).
Stefano
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