I disagree with this. The tests run a little but almost no one will
ever run them. Shipping a 3MB file that is used with one test in the
whole distribution seems to be a waste of space and bandwidth for
everyone else.

-h

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 06:03, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 November 2010 09:49, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5 November 2010 03:05, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>> This is a vote to release Apache Commons VFS 2.0.
>>>
>>> [ ] +1 release it
>>> [ ] +0 go ahead I don't care
>>> [X] -1 no, do not release it because...
>>
>> The code has a dependency on Commons NET 2.0, which requires Java 1.5+
>> However VFS targets Java 1.4+
>>
>>
>> Note: this was found by running the following Maven command:
>>
>> mvn package -Pjava-1.4
>>
>> The test is very noisy - not sure it's useful to have the following
>> lines printed:
>>
>> skipping testDeleteOneFiles because TarFileSystem does not have
>> capability CREATE
>>
>> Also, I think LargeTarTestCase should be optional (or ideally be
>> rewritten to not need so much disk space - not sure that is possible).
>
> Given that the tgz version of the file is 'only' 3MB, maybe that could
> just be included as a test resource?
> That would save time creating it, and might avoid the need to depend
> on Compress.
>
>>
>> The source package still contains the DOAP file (not a blocker).
>>
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>> tag: 
>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/vfs/tags/commons-vfs-project-2.0/
>>>
>>> site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/commons-vfs/index.html
>>>
>>> The following artifacts have been staged to the Apache Nexus Staging 
>>> repository org.apache.commons-036 (u:rgoers, a:38.110.32.2)
>>>
>>>
>>> commons-vfs-examples-2.0.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-examples-2.0-javadoc.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-examples-2.0.pom.asc
>>> commons-vfs-examples-2.0.jar
>>> commons-vfs-examples-2.0.pom
>>> commons-vfs-examples-2.0-sources.jar
>>> commons-vfs-examples-2.0-sources.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-examples-2.0-javadoc.jar
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0.pom
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0-src.tar.gz
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0-bin.zip
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0-src.tar.gz.asc
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0.pom.asc
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0-src.zip.asc
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0-src.zip
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0-bin.tar.gz.asc
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0-bin.tar.gz
>>> commons-vfs-distribution-2.0-bin.zip.asc
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0-sources.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0-sources.jar
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0.jar
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0.pom
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0-tests.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0-tests.jar
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0-javadoc.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0-test-sources.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0.pom.asc
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0-javadoc.jar
>>> commons-vfs-sandbox-2.0-test-sources.jar
>>> commons-vfs-2.0-test-sources.jar
>>> commons-vfs-2.0-sources.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-2.0-tests.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-2.0-tests.jar
>>> commons-vfs-2.0-javadoc.jar
>>> commons-vfs-2.0-test-sources.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-2.0.pom
>>> commons-vfs-2.0-javadoc.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-2.0.jar
>>> commons-vfs-2.0.jar.asc
>>> commons-vfs-2.0-sources.jar
>>> commons-vfs-2.0.pom.asc
>>> commons-vfs-project-2.0-site.xml.asc
>>> commons-vfs-project-2.0.pom
>>> commons-vfs-project-2.0-site.xml
>>> commons-vfs-project-2.0.pom.asc
>>
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