Hi, Benedikt :) JUnit 5 provider is cool, yes please :)
Providers have different language levels (the different modules have different language levels), and I am sure we can build with jdk8. jdk8 still supports the target 1.6, right ? Kristian 2016-08-27 11:23 GMT+02:00 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>: > Hi, > > I'm currently at SoCraTes 2016 [1] and I got a chance to talk to Marc > Philipp [2], who is one of the maintainers of the JUnit project. As you > might know, the JUnit team is currently working on the next major release > of JUnit (JUnit 5 a.k.a Jupiter) [3]. Quite a lot will change in JUnit 5 > and Marc gave me a kick start about the new architecture. The JUnit team > already implemented a rudimentary surefire provider for JUnit 5 [4] and > they eventually like to donate it to the maven project. This is where I > come into play, since I know Marc know and I'm a member of the ASF and I > though it would be good to help with this. > > What I'd like to find out is how we can move this forward. So here are two > questions to get us started: > - is the maven community interested in a donation of a surefire provider > for JUnit 5? (I volunteer to drive that and maintain the code afterwards) > - JUnit 5 is Java 8. Will this be a blocker? > > Looking forward to hearing from you, > Benedikt > > [1] http://socrates-conference.de/ > [2] https://twitter.com/marcphilipp > [3] http://junit.org/junit5/ > [4] > https://github.com/junit-team/junit5/tree/master/junit-platform-surefire-provider --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
