--- On Fri, 8/28/09, Alexander Kahl <ak...@imttechnologies.com> wrote:

> From: Alexander Kahl <ak...@imttechnologies.com>
> Subject: Re: jxpath 1.3 / mockrunner dependency
> To: "Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apache.org>
> Cc: "Alexander Kurtakov" <akurt...@redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 1:52 AM
> 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?
> 

Well, as Jorg (forgive my non-use of proper accent characters) mentioned, 
opening a JIRA would help ensure the request doesn't get lost.  And we always 
encourage contributions!

-Matt

> Alex
> 




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