Hi Matt,

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 08:13 -0700, 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.
great stuff! Do you need any help from us?

Alex

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