On Saturday 19 July 2003 01:23, Takashi Okamoto wrote: > From: Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: junit-freenet, was Re: Bug#165504 acknowledged by developer > Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:23:30 +0200 > > > > So it does not depend on any packages outside of main. It is in contrib > > because it does not work with any of the currently packaged JVMs in > > main. From the Java policy, section 2.5: > > In the fact, junit works with kaffe. But junit use swing which prevent > from compiling with free jvm, so junit is gone to contrib. I can write > swing ui wrapper which provide junit.swingui.TestRunner class but use > awt instead of swing. How about this idea? The wrapper class may > provide poor gui than original swing ui but we can put junit into > main.
What about making a patch that just removes all the Swing dependent stuff? Or, split the package up in a non-swing and a swing part... Though your option would be nicer, but could take more time? Have you considered a SWT drop in? Ah, no, just checked libswt-java is in contrib too... so, that won't help... > > I rather spend my time getting Ant and other packages into main than > > discussing this any longer. > > Sorry not sooner reply. I maint junit and it's my responsibility. Egon
