Re: JUnit

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Roman Kennke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Samstag, den 24.12.2005, 01:05 +0100 schrieb Dalibor Topic:
>
> > Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> >
> > > hello all,
> > >
> > > soon the GNU Crypto classes will be moving to Classpath.  i thought now 
> > > is the right time to bring this subject since it makes it easier for 
> > > those involved in this work.
> > >
> > > the proposal is to port the GNU Crypto Mauve tests to use JUnit instead.  
> > > this would make it easier to test using an IDE such as the Native 
> > > Eclipse.
> > >
> > > is this idea worth discussing or should we consider that for the 
> > > forseeable future Mauve only is the test framework for GNU Classpath?
> >
> > Hi Raif,
> >
> > Given that the majority (all?) of current tests in Mauve is under the 
> > GPL, without a single copyright holder, I assume, and the license of 
> > JUnit is incompatible with the GPL ... I doubt that a  wholesale rewrite 
> > of Mauve to JUnit would be easy for the moment. GPL3 may fix the prime 
> > reason for the incompatiblity, though.
>
>
> Wasn't there a GPL(-compatible) implementation of the JUnit API out
> there? I don't remember the name of this piece of software, but I think,
> somebody from Classpath once pointed me to that (Micheal?)

Right, I recall that it was packaged for debian. The code is at 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/freenet/Contrib/junit/ and hes 
been written by Oskar to fix that pesky licensing issue by having a GPLd 
 implementation of the JUnit framework.

I'll give it a spin with some JUnit tests to see how it works.

cheers,
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