Hi Abe, I'm +1 on this. Several Cassandra-ecosystem projects build the dtest jar in CI. We'd very much prefer to just consumed shaded dtest jars from Cassandra releases for testing purposes.
Best, - Francisco On 2023/11/28 19:02:17 Abe Ratnofsky wrote: > Hey folks - wanted to raise a separate thread to discuss publishing of > dtest-shaded JARs on release. > > Currently, adjacent projects that want to use the jvm-dtest framework need to > build the shaded JARs themselves. This is a decent amount of work, and is > duplicated across each project. This is mainly relevant for projects like > Sidecar and Driver. Currently, those projects need to clone and build > apache/cassandra themselves, run ant dtest-jar, and move the JAR into the > appropriate place. Different build systems treat local JARs differently, and > the whole process can be a bit complicated. Would be great to be able to > treat these as normal dependencies. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-19113 > > Any objections? > > -- > Abe