Not exactly clean room, but I have a feeling a lot of test cases could be copied from the given commons-* projects such as: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtilsTestCase.java?view=markup
This should work for methods with the same signatures. (it would help with the coverage anyway) On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Kristian Rosenvold < kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey if we could just copy the plexus source code in tree we wouldn't > > be doing this would we? If you have the provenance of the code and it > > is ASL license friendly, then fine copy & paste. > > > > That'd really be depending on the overall usage of a shim layer, > wouldn't it ? I think a shim makes sense for the stuff mentioned in > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/PLXUTILS-21 other than that I think it > makes sense to rework the dependencies or keep them as-is. Plexus-utils > is a bit of a flea market functionality wise and some of it may be > totally unused for all I know. > > But if the intention of the shim is to ensure/validate compatibility it > will often just delegate directly to another method. So if I was > upgrading to the shim I'd almost certainly inline the method invocations > so I'd just be left with clean dependencies on the real implementations. > So in this respect I could just use the shim as a transitional measure. > > > Kristian > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
