Matt Benson wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 8/27/09, Alexander Kahl <ak...@imttechnologies.com> wrote: > >> From: Alexander Kahl <ak...@imttechnologies.com> >> Subject: jxpath 1.3 / mockrunner dependency >> To: dev@commons.apache.org >> Cc: "Alexander Kurtakov" <akurt...@redhat.com> >> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 3:22 AM >> Hi Apache Commons Developers, >> >> I'm a packager for the Fedora Project and co-maintainer of >> jxpath. We, >> the maintainers of jxpath, recently tried to update to the >> latest >> version 1.3 and realized that building the package requires >> mockrunner >> which seems to be quite unmaintained and pulls in >> unbearable >> dependencies like a full-fledged J2EE stack. We would >> therefore like to >> ask you to migrate to a modern, actively maintained >> replacement like >> easymock2. Other downstream projects (esp. distributions) >> that depend on >> building from source would also benefit from doing so. >> >> Please share your thoughts with us. >> > > Hi--I'd qualify as the maintainer of [jxpath] but I have admittedly had > little time for it lately. I actually can't recall what mockrunner is > needed for, but I will take your complaint under advisement and look into > it. For the record, I've been having good luck with mockito lately so I > might look at migrating jxpath to that.
It would be best to open a JIRA issue with it, so it does not get lost and it might be a good starting point for someone getting familiar with jxpath's codebase ... ;-) - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
