Hi Kay Why did you delete hamcrest from configure.ac in r1757861?
It's essential: (recent) Junit doesn't work without it, and at least subsequent tests can't run! I will be adding it back soon if there are no objections. Regards Damjan On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/20/2016 03:18 PM, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: > > > > On 08/18/2016 02:00 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 08/17/2016 04:37 PM, Don Lewis wrote: > >>> On 12 Aug, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > >>>> Sadly it's not that simple: Junit builds with Maven, and Hamcrest with > >>>> Gradle. > >>>> > >>>> Is it ok to download the binaries, or is only source code allowed > under > >>>> ext_sources? > >>> > >>> I think it would be misleading because of the directory name. Dragging > >>> in extra dependencies just to build the .jar files seems like a waste. > >>> Downloading everything to one directory would make life easier, so it > is > >>> too bad about the name. > >>> > >>> The description for OOO Extras on Sourceforge says this: > >>> > >>> A space to store classic OOo dependencies that cannot be easily > >>> redistributed in Apache OpenOffice's SVN tree, > >>> > >>> Initially this was meant for copyleft tarballs only but it is also > >>> pretty handy to mirror other file dependencies. > >>> > >>> Since ext_sources isn't distributed in the source archives for > >>> releases, checking even non-copyleft source tarballs into svn under > that > >>> directory only helps people who are building from sources checkout out > >>> via svn. > >> > >> Do we know if the current buildbots have ANY version of Junit or > >> Hamcrest installed? As near as I could determine, our "last" published > >> version requirement for Junit was junit-4.10: > >> > >> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/test_automation_guide# > Prerequisites_2 > >> > >> > >> Or, it might be better to request direct access to the buildbots for > >> this kind of installation. > >> > >> > >> > > > > We can request installation of packs on the buildbot but they need to be > > in the form of deb packages. > > > > I found hamcrest here: https://mirror.hmc.edu/ubuntu/pool/main/libh/ > > and junit4 here: https://mirror.hmc.edu/ubuntu/pool/main/j/junit4/ > > > > from Ubuntu repos. @Damjan: can you provide a combination that would > work? > > > > > > I will work with infra on getting these installed on the Linux buildbots > we're using. I don't think trying to build/load them locally would be > very easy really. I ran through the tests using command line > instructions from: > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/test_automation_guide > > We really do need this testing, and I don't see any tests set up for > Base, so we need to work on that. > > -- > -------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "Time spent with cats is never wasted." > -- Sigmund Freud > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
