[jira] [Commented] (DERBY-4726) Investigate updating Junit version required for Derby build and test

["Knut Anders Hatlen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-4726:
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Now that Java 6 is the base level on trunk, I'd expect JUnit 4 to work.
                
> Investigate updating Junit version required for Derby build and test
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-4726
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4726
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Build tools, Test
>    Affects Versions: 10.7.1.1
>            Reporter: Kathey Marsden
>
> The derby build documentation BUILDING.html says the derby build requires JUnit 3.8.2. Junit 3.8.2 is no longer available at junit.org but can be downloaded from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/junit/files/
> At a minimum  we need to update the download references but it would be good to move ahead to JUnit 4 if possible., because who knows how long 3.8 will be generally available. 
>  Knut mentioned the following useful history.
> - It used to be that Derby wouldn't build with JUnit 4, but now it seems to, perhaps because we require JDK 1.5 in the build.
> - He thinks that  Junit 3.8.1 is still required for some small device platforms, because even 3.8.2 doesn't work there
> - We recommend 3.8.2 in BUILDING.html is was that it was better on reporting errors. In particular, failures in tearDown() don't mask failures in the test case (they did 3.8.1)

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