--- 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
