Ah, good, feel free to nuke or redo my RELEASE-NOTES.txt changes.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Caswell [mailto:steven.caswell@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:38 PM
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Cc: skitching@apache.org
Subject: Re: [lang] Release Candidiate 8 available
I agree with Gary. I don't have a problem putting the junit.jar into the
ant
lib folder. Simon has a good point about documenting the dependency.
IMHO
there should be a mention in the release notes with a fuller explanation
in
the developer's guide. I'll take a first cut and we can dress it up from
there.
On 6/1/05, Gary Gregory <ggregory@seagullsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I think it is quite reasonable to use the junit task to invoke junit
> tests, IMO it is the best way since it is both clear and succinct.
>
> Invoking junit tests the old way feels to me like a bit of hack, it
just
> happens to work by some side effect. Using the junit task states: This
> is a junit test, run!
>
> Personally, I would not favor the taskdef approach. My view on the
> subject is that one's development environment has to be set up in a
> certain way and JUnit is part of that. We already need Java, Ant and
> Maven. JUnit in Ant is another layer.
>
> We can always change is back of course ;-)
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Kitching [mailto:skitching@apache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 5:36 AM
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> Subject: RE: [lang] Release Candidiate 8 available
>
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 01:55 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> > Simon:
> >
> > You probably need to copy junit.jar to %ANT_HOME%\lib
>
> Yep, that will make things work. But I'm questioning whether it is
> reasonable for the lang 2.1 build process to require users to do this.
> What is wrong with the old way of running junit?
>
> Alternatively, according to the documentations the junit ant task will
> work if the <classpath> tag is used to point to the junit jar. And
there
> is already a property defined for that, right? So maybe the build.xml
> could be modified to provide an explicit taskdef for junit?
>
> Below is an example from the FAQ:
> <taskdef name="junit"
>
> class="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask">
> <classpath>
> <pathelement location="${junit.jar}"/>
> <pathelement location="NEW-HOME-OF/ant-junit.jar"/>
> </classpath>
> </taskdef>
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
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