subversion etiquette

[Rick Hillegas <Ri...@Sun.COM>]

Sometime soon I hope to checkin some JUnit-based tests for testing the 
compatibility of our clients and servers. As part of this submission, I 
want to checkin the JUnit jar itself (into tools/java alongside the 
other jars). Is it ok for the svn diff to contain a big binary file like 
this? Will this annoy/confuse reviewers? Is there a more polite way to 
submit jar files?

Thanks,
-Rick

Re: subversion etiquette

[David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>]

Well, I recommend using maven rather than ant.  In any case I hope that 
if you check in external jar files you use copies whose file name 
includes an accurate version number.  In my experience this is the only 
way with ant based builds to be able to find out what versions of the 
checked in jar files you are actually using.

I think that subversion recognizes jar files as binary and doens't 
produce diffs of them.

thanks
david jencks

On Sep 14, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Rick Hillegas wrote:

> Sometime soon I hope to checkin some JUnit-based tests for testing the 
> compatibility of our clients and servers. As part of this submission, 
> I want to checkin the JUnit jar itself (into tools/java alongside the 
> other jars). Is it ok for the svn diff to contain a big binary file 
> like this? Will this annoy/confuse reviewers? Is there a more polite 
> way to submit jar files?
>
> Thanks,
> -Rick
>

Re: subversion etiquette

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>]

Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
> Rick Hillegas wrote:
> 
>>Sometime soon I hope to checkin some JUnit-based tests for testing the
>>compatibility of our clients and servers. As part of this submission, I
>>want to checkin the JUnit jar itself (into tools/java alongside the
>>other jars). Is it ok for the svn diff to contain a big binary file like
>>this? Will this annoy/confuse reviewers? Is there a more polite way to
>>submit jar files?
> 
> 
> I'm not sure you can check Junit's jar into Apache's subversion
> repository due to its licence (CPL 0.5).
> 
> http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm#overview_7

Dan is correct; we cannot check CPL-licensed software/files into Apache.

For example, we couldn't check DITA Open Toolkit files into the derby 
svn repository because it is under CPL. We discussed the issue with the 
DITA OT developers and they additionally released it under the ASL 2 at 
the end of August.

Discussions about various licenses pop up on this list:
  http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/ .

-jean

Re: subversion etiquette

[Daniel John Debrunner <dj...@debrunners.com>]

Rick Hillegas wrote:
> Sometime soon I hope to checkin some JUnit-based tests for testing the
> compatibility of our clients and servers. As part of this submission, I
> want to checkin the JUnit jar itself (into tools/java alongside the
> other jars). Is it ok for the svn diff to contain a big binary file like
> this? Will this annoy/confuse reviewers? Is there a more polite way to
> submit jar files?

I'm not sure you can check Junit's jar into Apache's subversion
repository due to its licence (CPL 0.5).

http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm#overview_7

Dan.

Re: subversion etiquette

[Kathey Marsden <km...@sbcglobal.net>]

Rick Hillegas wrote:

> Sometime soon I hope to checkin some JUnit-based tests for testing the
> compatibility of our clients and servers.

Hi Rick

A  while ago  I filed DERBY-516 for this.  Maybe you could pick it up?


Kathey