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From: Joshua Nichols <nichoj@g.o>
To: gentoo-java@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] mockobjects-0.09-r1 won't build against junit-3.8.2
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:25:10
Message-Id: 45A12D21.4060604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-java] mockobjects-0.09-r1 won't build against junit-3.8.2 by David Emmett
1 David Emmett wrote:
2 > On Sunday 07 January 2007 18:01, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
3 >
4 >> Looks like they already closed it wontfix, because the project is dead.
5 >> Kinda what I expected.
6 >>
7 >
8 > Which rather begs the question: why do we need mockobjects to emerge groovy?
9 >
10 Because it really is a dependency of groovy. Groovy provides support for
11 using mock objects, see:
12
13 http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Mocks
14
15 A better question would be why doesn't upstream use a different
16 implementation of mock objects, that has a less dead upstream, like
17 jmock or easymock. Both of those have had releases in the past, whereas
18 mockobjects hasn't had a release since 2003.
19
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21 Joshua Nichols
22 Gentoo/Java Project Lead
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