Re: [Mockobjects-java-dev] Prepackaged Ant version

[Vincent M. <vm...@oc...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Freeman" <st...@m3...>
To: <moc...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Mockobjects-java-dev] Prepackaged Ant version


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vincent Massol" <vm...@oc...>
> To: <moc...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:43 PM
> Subject: [Mockobjects-java-dev] Prepackaged Ant version
>
>
> > Building the mockobjects project requires :
> > - a JDK installed
> > - Ant installed with the needed tasks : stylebook (version 2), junit
> > - depending on what mocks we want to build, some external jars (like
> > servlet.jar if we want to build the servlet mocks, ...)
> >
> > In order to facilitate building the mockobjects project, I propose to
> > provide on the developer web site (i.e. SF) a prepackaged zip containing
> Ant
> > with the needed tasks already in there. This is what I have done on the
> > Cactus project and it's been very successful.
> >
> > Ok ?
>
> Fine. We should make clear which versions of ant
> and junit we're using.
>

For me, this shouldn't be a problem and should work with all versions of Ant
and Junit ! For example, Cactus runs with any version of Ant and JUnit. Some
asserts have been deprecated in JUnit. That's fine, we'll have some warnings
when we build. When JUnit removed the methods, we'll also update and then at
that time, we'll say that we only support versions of JUnit greater than
such.

That's why we don't deliver Ant and JUnit as parts of the mockobjects
distributable : to let users use their own versions
- most of the users will already have Ant and/or JUnit installed and we
don't want to multiply the number of different versions they have on their
hard disk. Better work with any ! However for those who are not familiar
with Ant, we provide a prepackaged zip to help them.

> Steve
-Vincent